Croley began his professional career as a professor of law at the
University of Michigan. He joined the Michigan Law faculty in 1993, and was granted tenure in 1998. From 2003 to 2006, he served as the associate dean for academic affairs. Croley was ranked by
Brian Leiter in 2002 as being the ninth most widely cited law faculty who entered teaching since 1993. He is the author of
Civil Justice Reconsidered: Towards a Less Costly, More Accessible Civil Litigation System (New York University Press, 2017), and of
Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government (
Princeton University Press 2008), His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the
Michigan Law Review,
Harvard Law Review,
Columbia Law Review,
Administrative Law Journal, and the
University of Chicago Law Review. At Michigan Law, Croley taught administrative law,
torts, civil procedure,
banking, energy law, and
law and economics of regulated industries. From 2006 to 2010, he served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Michigan. He represented the United States in affirmative and defensive civil litigation in the federal trial and appellate courts. Croley is admitted to the
State Bar of Michigan the Illinois Bar, and the Washington DC Bar. He has been a member of the
American Bar Association,
Federal Bar Association,
American Constitution Society, and
American Law and Economics Association. He has served on the board of the
Institute for Policy Integrity and as a member of the
Tobin Project on economic regulation. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education and was its chair from 2004 to 2005. Croley has served as a
peer reviewer for
Regulation & Governance, the
Journal of Politics; the
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory; and the
Journal of Legal Studies. Croley also served as a research consultant to the
U.S. Department of Labor from 1994 to 1995, to the
Administrative Conference of the United States from 1994 to 1995, and the
Michigan Law Revision Commission from 1996 to 1999. ==Personal life==