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Michael Avery is a professor at Suffolk University Law School and a civil rights lawyer. He was the president of the National Lawyers Guild from 2003 to 2006. Avery edited and was a contributing author to the 2008 book We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, which received favorable reviews in Trial and Choice. He is also the coauthor of: Avery, Michael, and David Rudovsky. Police Misconduct Litigation Manual. Philadelphia, Penn: National Lawyers Guild, 1978. Avery, Michael, and David Rudovsky. Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation. New York: C. Boardman, 1980. Avery, Michael, and Danielle McLaughlin. The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals+ book. Nashville, Tenn: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013 Avery was the subject of controversy in 2011 for comments made regarding a care package drive for U.S. troops at Suffolk.