Michael Bobelian is an author, lawyer, and journalist whose work has covered issues ranging from legal affairs to corporate wrongdoing to human rights.
Upon graduating from the University of Michigan's Business and Law Schools, Michael worked at the law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed before earning a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
As a legal affairs contributor at Forbes.com, Michael covers a variety of legal topics, including the Supreme Court, Wall Street reform, regulatory agencies, and high-profile lawsuits.
He has also written for Legal Affairs Magazine, the Washington Monthly, and the New York Law Journal, where he worked as a staff reporter. Michael's media appearances include C-Span's BookTV, NPR's Word of Mouth, and NPR's Leonard Lopate Show.
He is a recipient of a grant from The Nation Institute Investigative Fund and a contributor to the December 2006 issue of American Lawyer, which won a Neal Award for the best single issue of a magazine. In 2013, 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 is also the author of Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2009.
Published Works:
Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice
Starting in 1915, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the "starving Armenians," the promises to hold the perpetrators accountable were never fulfilled. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Bobelian profiles the leading players—Armenian activists and assassins, Turkish diplomats, U.S. officials—each of whom played a significant role in furthering or opposing the century-long Armenian quest for justice in the face of Turkish denial of its crimes, and reveals the events that have conspired to eradicate the "forgotten Genocide" from the world's memory. Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster.
Michael Bobelian is an author, lawyer, and journalist whose work has covered issues ranging from legal affairs to corporate wrongdoing to human rights.
Starting in 1915, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the "starving Armenians," the promises to hold the perpetrators accountable were never fulfilled. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Bobelian profiles the leading players—Armenian activists and assassins, Turkish diplomats, U.S. officials—each of whom played a significant role in furthering or opposing the century-long Armenian quest for justice in the face of Turkish denial of its crimes, and reveals the events that have conspired to eradicate the "forgotten Genocide" from the world's memory. Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster.
