Michael Avery is a

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at Suffolk University Law School and a

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lawyer. He was the president of the

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from 2003 to 2006. He is currently the President of the Board of the National Police Accountability Project. Avery edited and was a contributing author to the 2008 book ''We Dissent: Talking Back to the

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Court'', which received favorable reviews in ''Trial'''' and ''Choice''. He is also the coauthor of: *Avery, Michael, David Rudovsky, Karen Blum, and Jennifer Lauin, ''Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation''. New York: Thomson Reuters, updated annually. *Brodin, Mark and Avery, Michael, Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, Wolters Kluwer, updated annually. *Avery, Michael, and Danielle McLaughlin. ''The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals''+ book. Nashville, Tenn: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013 *Avery, Michael, Glannon Guide to Evidence, Wolters Kluwer, 2018. His first novel, ''The Cooperating Witness'', will be published by Literary Wanderlust in the summer of 2020.

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