Early life and education
Croley was born and raised in Mid-Michigan, where he attended public schools. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, A.B. ''Latin honors, summa cum laude'' and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, where he was a James B. Angell Scholar and won the William Jennings Bryan Prize, in 1988. Croley then earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was an articles editor of the ''Yale Law Journal'', was a John M. Olin student fellow, and won the John M. Olin Prize and Benjamin Scharps Prize. Croley served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1991 to 1992. Croley attended graduate school at Princeton University, where he was a University Fellow and earned an Master of Arts, M.A. in 1994 and a Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. in American politics in 1998.Scholarship
Croley began his teaching career at the University of Michigan Law School in 1993 and was granted tenure in 1998. From 2003 to 2006, he served as the associate dean for academic affairs. At Michigan Law, Croley has taught classes in administrative law, torts, civil procedure, collective action, banking law, energy law, and Financial regulation, regulation, suits against the state, civil justice, good government, and law and economics of regulated industries. Croley is the author of ''Civil Justice Reconsidered: Towards a Less Costly, More Accessible Civil Litigation System'' (New York University Press, 2017), and of ''Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government'' (Princeton University Press 2008), and his work has appeared in a variety of law journals, including the ''Michigan Law Review'', ''Harvard Law Review'', ''Columbia Law Review'', ''Administrative Law Journal'', and the ''University of Chicago Law Review''. Croley was ranked by Brian Leiter in 2002 as being the ninth most widely cited law faculty who entered teaching since 1993.Professional activities
Croley joined the Michigan Law faculty in 1993. From 1999 to 2006, Croley had a part-time Practice of law, private practice in the state and federal courts, handling a wide variety of matters. Croley served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Eastern District of Michigan from 2006 to 2010, representing the United States in a variety of affirmative and defensive civil litigation in the federal courts. Croley was a policy advisor for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, Obama for America in 2008 United States presidential election, 2007 and 2008, serving as convenor of the Law & Judiciary Policy Advisory Committee, co-convenor of the Government Reform Policy Advisory Committee, and surrogate on administrative law and government reform. Croley also served on the Presidential transition of Barack Obama, Obama-Biden Transition Team in 2008 and 2009 and on the Carl Levin, Levin-Debbie Stabenow, Stabenow United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Eastern District of Michigan Judicial Advisory Committee in 2009. He served the Obama White House beginning in 2010, and in the US Department of Energy beginning in 2014. In 2019 and 2020, he volunteered for the Biden for President campaign, and assisted the Biden Transition team. Croley is admitted to the State Bar of Michigan the Illinois Bar, and the Washington DC Bar. Croley is also a member of the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Constitution Society, and American Law and Economics Association. He has served on the board of the Institute for Policy Integrity and as a member of the Tobin Project on economic regulation. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education and was its chair from 2004 to 2005. Croley serves as a peer reviewer for ''Regulation & Governance'', the ''Journal of Politics''; the ''Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory''; and the ''Journal of Legal Studies''. Croley served as a research consultant to the United States Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor from 1994 to 1995, to the Administrative Conference of the United States from 1994 to 1995, and the Michigan Law Revision Commission from 1996 to 1999. Croley won Michigan Law's annual L. Hart Wright Teaching Award in 1995. In 2004, Croley received the American Bar Association's Award for Scholarship in Administrative Law. In 2010, he was elected into the American Law Institute. He was the recipient of the Department of Energy's Achievement Award (2016) and Exceptional Service Award (2017). At Latham & Watkins, he represents clients across the country and around the globe with litigation matters, regulatory matters, and transactional matters.Personal life
Croley is married to Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack, a professor of law and former associate dean of clinical affairs at the University of Michigan Law School. The couple has four children.Amy KurasNotes
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