Michael Dreeben

Michael R. Dreeben (born c. 1954) is a former Deputy Solicitor General who was in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice criminal docket before the United States Supreme Court. He is recognized as an expert in U.S. criminal law.

Dreeben currently serves as Counselor to Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Dreeben had a lengthy career in the Solicitor General's office, starting as an Assistant in 1988, then promoted as a Deputy Solicitor General in 1995, serving until 2019. In his first case before the Supreme Court, United States v. Halper (1989), he was opposed by John Roberts, who later became Chief Justice. In 2016 Dreeben became only the seventh person to argue 100 cases before the Supreme Court. In 2017, he was enlisted by special counsel Robert Mueller to assist the investigation of Russia's interventions into the 2016 U.S. presidential election. By December 2023 he had joined the Smith special counsel investigation of former president Donald Trump, as the special counsel petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to swiftly decide whether Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution.

Dreeben is a Distinguished Lecturer at Georgetown Law, and has previously taught at Harvard Law School and Duke University Law School. In 2020 he became a partner at O'Melveny & Myers.

Selected publications

• ——— (1981). "Hot-Cargo Agreements in the Construction Industry: Restraints on Subcontracting under the Proviso to Section 8(e)". Duke Law Journal. 1981 (1): 141–180. doi:10.2307/1372307. JSTOR 1372307.
• ——— (1988). "Insider Trading and Intangible Rights: The Redefinition of the Mail Fraud Statute". Am. Crim. L. Rev. 26 (1): 181–227.

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• List of cases argued by Michael Dreeben

1. Trump v. United States (2024)
2. Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
3. Jeffrey Skilling
4. List of Duke University School of Law alumni
5. List of Duke University people
6. United States v. Jones (2012)
7. List of nicknames used by Donald Trump about other people
8. Legal teams involved in the Mueller special counsel investigation
9. Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (2020–2022)
10. Virginia A. Seitz
11. Beckles v. United States
12. Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (January–June 2017)
13. Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (July–December 2018)
14. Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (January–June 2019)
15. Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (July 2016 – election day)
16. Welch v. United States
17. Salman v. United States
18. Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (January–June 2018)
19. Timeline of post-election transition following Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
20. United States v. Cotton