Michael Paris

Professor Paris has been on the faculty since 2007. He teaches courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, and law and public policy. He also directs the College of Staten Island’s Legal Studies Institute [CSILSI.blogspot.com] and serves as the Pre-Law Advisor for the College. Professor Paris received the CSI's 2011 Dolphin Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Member of the Full-Time Faculty. He is the author of Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform (Stanford University Press, 2010), which received an honorable mention for the 2011 C. Herman Pritchett Award, given annually by the American Political Science Association’s Law and Courts Section for the best book in the field published by a political scientist during the previous year.