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E-Mail:
schwartzman@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 924-7848

Office: WB301A

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Sharon E. Hutchinson

Micah J. Schwartzman

Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2005
D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2003
B.A., University of Virginia, 1998

Micah Schwartzman joined the faculty in 2007. He teaches constitutional law and the First Amendment (Religion Clauses). His areas of interest include law and religion, jurisprudence, and political philosophy.

Schwartzman received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. During law school, he served as Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review and received numerous awards, including the Margaret G. Hyde Award, the Daniel Rosenbloom Award, and the Hardy Cross Dillard Scholarship. After graduating, Schwartzman clerked for the Hon. Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities.

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Constitutional Law II: Church and State
Religion, Democracy and Law (Seminar)
Constitutional Law
Advanced Topics in the First Amendment
Textualism and Its Critics
Seminar in Ethical Values

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