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Marvin Krislov is the vice president and general counsel of the University of Michigan. In this position, he is responsible for the University's legal affairs, including establishing goals and strategies, serving as senior legal counsel to the Board of Regents and the University administration and its units, and managing the University's relationships with outside counsel. Mr. Krislov led the University's legal defense of its admission policies, resulting in the 2003 Supreme Court decision of the importance of student body diversity. He co-chairs the presidential task force on ethics in public life and has served on the athletics department's transition committee. In addition to teaching a seminar on Congressional oversight at the Law School, Professor Krislov also teaches two courses in the political science department - Law and Public Policy, and The Supreme Court and Public Education. Professor Krislov received a B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1982. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied at Oxford University's Magdalen College, where he received an M.A. degree in modern history in 1985. He served as editor of the Yale Law Journal and earned a doctor of laws degree from Yale Law School in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he worked as a law clerk for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, he was acting solicitor in the U.S. Department of Labor, and deputy solicitor, serving as the primary legal advisor to the Secretary of Labor. He also served as associate counsel in the Office of Counsel to the President, where he handled litigation and policy matters; was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, where he prosecuted racial violence and police brutality cases in grand jury investigations and at trials throughout the country; and taught at the National Law Center at George Washington University. Selected Publications
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