Halberstam is the Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and Director of the European Legal Studies Program at the University of Michigan Law School.
summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in mathematics from Columbia University and his J.D.
He then served as a law clerk to Judge Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit and for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Halberstam is married to Ellen D. Katz, also a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.