Background
Kahn, Michael A. was born on February 4, 1949 in Buffalo, New York, United States.
Kahn, Michael A. was born on February 4, 1949 in Buffalo, New York, United States.
University of California at Los Angeles (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1970). Stanford University (Master of Arts, 1973. Juris Doctor, 1973). Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Sigma Alpha.
Phi Eta Sigma. Member, 1971-1972, and Book Review Editor, 1972-1973, Stanford Law Review. Irving Heilman, Junior Scholar, Stanford Law School.
Worked at Folger Levin & Kahn Limited Liability Partnership. Admitted to the bar, 1973, California. Member: Phi Beta Kappa.
Pi Sigma Alpha. Phi Eta Sigma. Irving Hellman, Junior Scholar, Stanford Law School.
Member, 1971-1972, and Book Review Editor, 1972-1973, Stanford Law Review.
Author: "The Politics of the Appointment Process: An Analysis of Why Learned Hand Was Never Appointed to the Supreme Court," 25 Stanford Law Review 689 (1973). "The Appointment of John McLean to the Supreme Court: A Case Study In Practical Presidential Politics in the New Jacksonian Democracy," Journal of Supreme Court History, Yearbook of the Supreme Court Historical Society, 1995. The Appointment of a Supreme Court Justice: A Political Process from Beginning to End," Presidential Studies Quarterly, 1995.
Company-Author: "Recent Developments in Lender Liability Litigation: RICO, CERCLA, and Aiding and Abetting," 1987-1990, Practicing Law Institute Handbook, Lender Liability Litigation: Recent Developments.
Law Clerk to Judge Ben C. Duniway, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1973-1974. Arbitrator, San Francisco County Superior Court, 1981.
Member, Northern District of California Early Neutral Evaluation Panel, 1990. Member, 1990-1995 and Executive Committee, 1995, Board of Visitors, Stanford Law School.
Member, Civil Justice Reform Acting Advisory Group, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 1990-1995.
Member, American Law Institute, 1991. Member, Advisory Committee (Restatement, Third, Torts: Apportionment of Liability), American Law Institute, 1993. Member, Board of Directors, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, 1991-1995.
Chairman, California State Insurance Commissioner Task Force on Environmental Liability Insurance, 1993-1994.
Chairman, Unfair Practices Committee, California State Insurance Commissioner Task Force on Insurance Practices, 1991. Member, California State Senate Commission on Property Tax Equity and Revenue, 1990-1991.
Member, Board of Directors Coro Foundation, 1993, and President, 1996. Member, Board of Trustees Center for the Study of Presidency, 1995.
Member: Bar Association of San Francisco.
The State Bar of California. American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Litigation. Antitrust Law).
The Politics of the Appointment Process: An Analysis of Why Learned Hand Was Never Appointed to the Supreme Court," 25 Stanford Law Review 689, 1973. "On the Appointment of Justices to the Supreme Court," 26 Stanford Law Review 251, 1974. "Justices and Presidents," 63 California Law Review 827, 1975.
"Local Pretrial Rules in Federal Courts," 6 American Bar Association Litigation Journal No. 3 at 34, 1980. Co-Author: "Recent Developments in Lender Liability Litigation," 1987-1990 Practicing Law Institute Handbook, Lender Liability Litigation - Recent Developments. Law Clerk to Judge Ben C. Duniway, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1973-1974.
Arbitrator, San Francisco County Superior Court, since 1981. Member, Northern District of California Early Neutral Evaluation Panel. Member, Board of Visitors, Stanford Law School, since 1990.
Northern District of California Masters’ Committee of the Task Force on Expedition of Dispute Resolution, since 1982.
Member: Phi Beta Kappa. Pi Sigma Alpha; Phi Eta Sigma. Irving Hellman, Junior Scholar, Stanford Law School.
Member, 1971-1972, and Book Review Editor, 1972-1973, Stanford Law Review.