About Mike
Mike Apsan-Orgera is completing his LL.M. in criminal justice at UCLA School of Law. He graduated summa cum laude from Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law. This summer, he will be a fellow at the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School, working in the Peter Gruber Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic. Mike's work focuses on wrongful conviction and contemporary bail reform measures, including preventive detention.
EDUCATION
- UCLA School of Law, LL.M., May 2025
- Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude
- Class Rank: 15/288
- Nova Law Review, Volume 48
SELECT LEGAL EXPERIENCE
- Office of the Federal Public Defender, Noncapital Habeas Unit
- UCLA Prisoners’ Rights Clinic
- Reid Levin, PLLC, Law Clerk
- NSU Veterans Law Clinic
- NSU Disability Inclusion and Advocacy Law (DIAL) Clinic
- Ramey Litigation Group APC, Law Clerk
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Teaching Assistant
- Apsan Law Offices, Law Clerk
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Jewish Law Students Association
- UCLA Prison Accountability Project
- UCLA El Centro Legal Reentry Clinic
- UCLA El Centro Legal Veterans Clinic
- California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
- San Diego County Bar Association
- Broward County Bar Association
- Miami-Dade Bar Association
- Helping Hands for Ukraine, Volunteer
RESEARCH
- Non-DNA Guilty Plea Exonerations
- Unconstitutional Pretrial Preventive Detention: Recent bail reform legislation constitutionalizing preventive detention, infringing the fundamental right to bail, and causing legally presumed—and in some cases, factually innocent individuals—to suffer pretrial, pre-conviction punishment.