Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
schragger@virginia.edu
(434) 924-3641
Room WB177E

ASSISTANT
Pennie Newell

SUBJECTS
Property, local government law, land use, urban law and policy, constitutional law, and church and state

Richard C. Schragger

Barron F. Black Research Professor of Law
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1996
M.A., University College London, 1993
B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Rich Schragger joined the Virginia faculty in 2001. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, federalism, urban policy and the constitutional and economic status of cities. He has authored articles on the Establishment Clause and local regulation of religion, the role of cities in a federal system, local recognition of same-sex marriage, takings law and economic development, and the history of the anti-chain store movement. Schragger has published in the Harvard, Yale, Michigan and Virginia law reviews, among others. He teaches property, local government law, urban law and policy, and land use law.

Schragger received an M.A. in legal theory from University College London and received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. After clerking for Dolores Sloviter, then-chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Schragger joined the Washington, D.C., firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, where he practiced for two years.

Schragger was a visiting professor at Georgetown Law School in 2001-02. In the fall of 2008, he was a visiting professor at New York University Law School and in the spring of 2009 he was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School.

Scholarship Profile: Examining Cities, Constitutions, and the Connections Between Them (Virginia Journal 2009)

Publications
Current Courses
All Courses

Local Government Law
Seminar in Ethical Values
Theoretical Perspectives on Property

In the Media

"Supreme Court's Politics Could Determine Same-Sex Marriage Outcome" (Charlottesville Newsplex, 03/27/2013)
"Debt, Debt and More Debt: Is Democracy to Blame?" (NPR, 07/17/2012)
"Commentary: Lamenting the Loss of the Tavern" (Charlottesville Daily Progress, 12/18/2011)
"Occupy Orlando Protesters and Police Clash Over Use of Park" (The Orlando Sentinel, 10/28/2011)
"S.F.'s Fight With Cellphone Industry Tests Compelled Speech" (The Recorder, 10/07/2011)
"Foreclosures Helping Change Color of Some Suburbs" (Associated Press, 02/28/2011)
"Cape Cod’s Locals Keep the Chain Stores Out" (New York Times, 06/08/2010)
"Jefferson v. Cuccinelli" (Slate, 06/01/2010)
"Virginia Attorney General Demands Scientist's E-Mails" (NPR, 05/28/2010)
"K.G. Official Steps Aside on Votes 19 Times" (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, 08/30/2009)
"The Possible City" (City Paper.net, 09/03/2008)
"High Court Ends Town's Sewer Fight: Blacksburg's Town Council Will Not Be Held to a 1972 Agreement to Extend Sewers in the Toms Creek Basin" (Roanoke Times, 03/03/2007)
"Jurisprudence/Congress Behaving Badly" (author) (Washington Post, 10/08/2006)
"Cooler Heads/The Difference Between the President's Lawyers and the Military's" (author) (Slate, 09/20/2006)
"Settlement over Portsmouth Church Site Is Not Set in Stone" (The Virginian-Pilot, 06/12/2006)
"Rock and Roe: Alito’s Unequivocal Abortion Decisions" (author) (Slate, 11/01/2005)
"Commentary: The Real World/Why Judicial Philosophies Matter" (co-author) (Slate, 09/07/2005)
"At Risk: Roe, Rights and Religion" (author) (The Los Angeles Times , 07/21/2005)