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MAYA R. KOBERSY
Associate General Counsel
Maya Kobersy’s primary practice areas include student affairs, affirmative action and diversity, election law, privacy, research and research misconduct, University logo issues, and intellectual property. Maya is the liaison to the Institutional Review Board-Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences. She also serves on a number of University committees, including the Diversity Council, the IRB Council, and the University Logos Committee. In addition, Maya has served on the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the National Association of College and University Attorneys since 2008. Maya has presented at University, state, and national conferences on issues relating to diversity, election law, and employment compensation.
Prior to joining the Office of the General Counsel in 2005, Maya worked in the Education Group of Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., where she advised clients on numerous K-12, higher education, and civil rights issues. Maya received her B. A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review and a finalist and oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition. In recognition of her work to help ensure that Americans with limited English proficiency have meaningful access to federal and federally- funded programs, Maya received the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Excellence in the Legal Profession Award in 2002 and the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium’s Distinguished Service Award in 2003.
Maya can be reached at (734) 764-0304 or via email at mkobersy@umich.edu
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