Glen Staszewski’s research focuses broadly on the democratic legitimacy of lawmaking and interpretation in the modern administrative state and seeks to identify ways to facilitate reasoned deliberation and agonistic contestation within government. He has published articles in leading journals on topics at the intersection of administrative law, constitutional theory, legislation, statutory interpretation, and civil procedure. His work tends to be tied together—and distinctive—based on his exploration of what are conventionally viewed as “legal problems” through the lens of democratic theory.

Professor Staszewski has produced novel insights in several different realms of interpretive theory and proposed innovative ways to improve the structure, functioning, and legitimacy of democratic institutions. For example, he has served as a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States on two projects that recommend best practices for federal administrative agencies to broaden public participation and community engagement in rulemaking and adjudication. His recent scholarship also includes a series of articles claiming that the same kind of authoritarian populism that is now prominent in the political sphere has also insinuated itself into law.

Professor Staszewski was a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice before joining the MSU Law faculty. He served as Editor in Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review during law school and was subsequently elected to the Order of the Coif. Upon graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Fortunato P. Benavides of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Professor Staszewski has served as Co-Associate Dean for Academic Affairs within the Law College and as Chair of the Administrative Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools. He regularly teaches Civil Procedure, Legislation, and Administrative Law, and he has also taught courses on comparative constitutionalism, presidential powers, and the regulatory state. He has twice received the distinguished faculty award for excellence in teaching from MSU Law’s Student Bar Association.

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J.D. Vanderbilt Law School
B.A. University of Wisconsin