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Margo J. Schlanger
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| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA, JD) |
| Occupation | Civil rights official Legal scholar |
| Known for | Civil rights Prisoners rights Torts |
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| Institutions | University of Michigan U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington University in St. Louis |
Margo Jane Schlanger (born in 1967) is a smart American lawyer and professor. She teaches law at the University of Michigan Law School. She also started a group called the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. This group helps people learn about and deal with civil rights issues.
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Helping People's Rights
From 2010 to 2012, Margo Schlanger took a break from teaching. She worked for the U.S. government as the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the United States Department of Homeland Security. This was a very important job! She was the top person making sure the government respected everyone's rights.
What She Did at Homeland Security
Her job was to advise leaders on civil rights. She also talked with communities to understand their concerns. She looked into complaints about civil rights and helped solve them. Margo Schlanger also worked to improve how the department handled equal opportunities for its employees.
Some of her big projects included:
- Making sure a program called Secure Communities did not lead to unfair actions by local police.
- Helping government agencies give good access to people who don't speak much English.
- Working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make detention centers better.
- Improving how people could report civil rights complaints to the department.
Other Important Roles
Margo Schlanger was also part of a special group called the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons. This group looked at how to make prisons safer and fairer. She also helped the American Bar Association with a task force about how prisoners are treated. She has spoken to Congress about how communities can help stop violence. She also talked about how a law called the Prison Litigation Reform Act affects people.
Her Education and Early Career
Margo Schlanger went to Yale College and finished in 1989. Then, she went to Yale Law School and graduated in 1993. While in law school, she won an award for her legal work. She also helped edit the Yale Law Journal.
Before law school, she worked as a fact-checker for The New Yorker magazine. After law school, she worked for two years with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States. After that, she became a trial lawyer in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.
Personal Life
Margo Schlanger has been married to Samuel Bagenstos since 1998.
In 2021, she was suggested for a job in the Biden administration. She was nominated again in 2023, but the nomination ended a year later.
See also
- List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 6)
