Michael A. Rebell

Adjunct Professor of Law

Office:	525 West 120th Street New York NY 10027
Tel:	212-678-4144
Fax:	212-678-8364
Email:	mar224@columbia.edu

B.A., Harvard College, 1965; LL.B., Yale Law School, 1970. Scholarly interests include equity in education, the role of the courts in institutional reform litigations, and social reform. Serves as the Executive Director of the National Access Network, based at Teachers College. Access acts as a nationwide resource for school funding litigators, grassroots advocates, legislators, and other policymakers. Co-founder and Executive Director and Counsel from 1993-2005 for The Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. a non-profit coalition of parent and advocacy organizations which seeks to reform the way education funds are distributed to public school students in the City and State of New York. Books include Equality and Education, with Arthur R. Block (Princeton University Press, 1985); Educational Policy Making and the Courts: An Empirical Study of Judicial Activism, with Arthur R. Block (University of Chicago Press, 1982). Articles include ``Poverty, Meaningful Educational Opportunity and the Necessary Role of the Courts,'' North Carolina Law Review, 2007. Assistant Lecturer on African Government, University of Sierra Leone, 1966 - 1967; Instructor, Yale Transitional Year Program, 1968 - 1970; Instructor, New School for Social Research, 1971 - 1973; Adjunct Professor of Political Theory and Law, State University of New York, College at Purchase, 1975 - 1980; Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1982-1998; Adjunct Professor of Law, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2000- 2004; Professor of Law and Educational Practice, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005 - Present.