Professor Magarian graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Michigan Law School. While in law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Law Review. In addition, he published two pieces: a Note, Fighting Exclusion From Televised Presidential Debates: Minor-Party Candidates’ Standing to Challenge Sponsoring Organizations’ Tax-Exempt Status, 90 Mich. L. Rev. 838 (1992), which was awarded the Helen L. DeRoy Memorial Award for the best student-written contribution to the Law Review; and a Book Notice, Mark A. Graber, Transforming Free Speech, 90 Mich. L. Rev. 1425 (1992). Professor Magarian also was the recipient of the Henry Bates Memorial Scholarship, which is the highest award that the faculty bestows upon a graduating student.

Following law school, Professor Magarian clerked for U.S. District Judge Louis Oberdorfer and later for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. He then worked as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., handling constitutional and antitrust litigation.

Professor Magarian’s latest articles include: “Toward Political Safeguards of Self-Determination,” which will be published in the Villanova Law Review in its symposium issue entitled New Voices on the New Federalism; and “How to Apply the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to Federal Law Without Violating the Constitution,” which will be published later this year in the Michigan Law Review.