Michael Bobelian

Michael Bobelian is an award-winning author, lawyer, and journalist whose work has covered issues ranging from legal affairs to corporate wrongdoing to human rights.

As a contributing writer at Forbes.com, Michael currently covers the Supreme Court, Wall Street reform, white collar crime, regulatory agencies, human rights, and high-profile trials. He has also written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Monthly, California Lawyer magazine, Reuters, National Book Review, the New York Law Journal, where he worked as a staff reporter, and various other publications.

Michael’s media appearances include C-Span’s BookTV, SKY News (UK), NPR's Leonard Lopate Show, NPR's Word of Mouth, NPR's Morning Edition, the Behind the Pages television show in Boston, Bill Handel's show on KFI 640AM in Los Angeles, John Rothmann's show on KGO 810AM in San Francisco, WSOU in New Jersey, KUCI in Irvine, and Newstalk 106-108 in Ireland.

The Columbia Journalism School selected Michael’s feature story, "Vartkes's List," as one of the school’s "100 Great Stories" in celebration of its centennial. Michael has also received a Congressional Research Grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center, and grants from the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress and The Nation Institute Investigative Fund. He contributed to the December 2006 issue of American Lawyer magazine, which won a Neal Award for the best single issue of a magazine. He has been a Wertheim Scholar, Allen Scholar, and a Researcher-In-Residence at the Shoichi Noma Reading Room at the New York Public Library. In 2018, Michael was an Archival Fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute.