James E. Ryan
Academic Associate Dean
William L. Matheson & Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law
Joseph C. Carter, Jr., Research Professor
Biography | Publications
Phone: (434) 924-3572
E-mail: jryan@virginia.edu
Subject Area(s): Law and education, desegregation, school finance/vouchers, school choice, constitutional and civil rights law, land use planning, Supreme Court, torts, race and the law
All Courses: Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law Scholarship and the Scholarly Process (seminar), Environmental Justice (seminar), Land Use Law, Law & Education, Local Government Law, Schools, Race, and Money, Torts
Current Course(s): Special Education Law (Sc), Seminar In Ethical Values (Yr), Seminar In Ethical Values (Yr), Constitutional Law (A,I)
In the media:
- "Socioeconomic Integration: It’s Legal, and It Makes Sense" (co-author) (Education Week, 06/14/2008)
- "Fixing Education Policy" (author) (Slate.com, 04/01/2008)
- "Say Something!" (author) (Education Week, 01/22/2008)
- "Supreme Court Forum Discusses Changes in the Court's Decision-making" (Harvard Law School News, 11/29/2007)
- "The Dissenter" (New York Times Magazine, 09/23/2007)
- "Conservative Judges, Liberal Crisis" (The American Spectator, 08/08/2007)
- "How Liberals Can Take Back the Court" (co-author) (The New Republic, 08/06/2007)
- "Originalist Sins/The Faux Originalism of Justice Clarence Thomas" (co-author) (Slate, 08/01/2007)
- "Money, Not Race, Fuels New Push to Buoy Schools" (New York Times, 06/30/2007)
- "Guest Blogger: Seattle Schools and Bakke" (ACS Blog, 06/29/2007)
- “Divided Court Rejects Using Race to Classify Students/Ruling May Call Into Question Roanoke's Attendance Zones” (Roanoke Times, 06/29/2007)
- "N.C. Schools Found Success by Balance" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/11/2005)
- "Commentary: The Evolution of Conservatism/ Should the Supreme Court Clear the Way for School Choice?" (National Review, 02/27/2004)
- "Bill Would Lift SOL Rule for Graduation" (The Washington Post, 01/25/2004)
- "When Reform Goes Awry / Professor Says U.S. Is Ripe to Reap Unintended Consequences from Well-Intended Legislation" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 01/25/2004)
- "State Must Better Prepare Its Students" (author) (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 01/21/2004)
- "The Neutrality Principle" (author) (Education Next, 09/01/2003)
- "Commentary: Sit In For School Equality" (author) (The Washington Post, 05/19/2003)
- "Taking School Choice to the Suburbs" (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 07/07/2002)
- "Taking School Choice to the Suburbs" (The Washington Post, 07/03/2002)
- "Vouchers: A Shift, But Just How Big?" (The New York Times, 06/20/2002)