Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

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schwartzman@virginia.edu
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Pennie Newell

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Micah J. Schwartzman

Professor of Law
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2005
D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2003
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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 Judge 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.

Publications

"Obligation, Anarchy, and Exemption," 28 Const. Comment. (forthcoming 2013) (reviewing Abner S. Greene, Against Obligation: The Multiple Sources of Authority in a Liberal Democracy (2012)).
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"Reasoning from Conjecture: A Reply to Three Objections," in Rawls and Religion (Tom Bailey and Valentina Gentile eds., forthcoming 2014).

"Lost in Translation: A Dilemma for Freedom of the Church" (with Richard Schragger), 21 J. Contemp. Legal Issues _ (forthcoming 2013) (symposium).
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"Against Religious Institutionalism" (with Richard Schragger) 99 Va. L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2013).
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"What if Religion Is Not Special?" 79 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1351 (2012).
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"The Ethics of Reasoning from Conjecture," 9 J. Moral Phil. 521 (2012).
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"The Sincerity of Public Reason," 19 J. Pol. Phi. 375 (2011).
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"Conscience, Speech, and Money," 97 Va. L. Rev. 317 (2011).
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"Judicial Sincerity," 94 Va. L. Rev. 987 (2008).
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"The Relevance of Locke’s Religious Arguments for Toleration," 33 Pol. Theory 678 (2005).
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"The Completeness of Public Reason," 3 Pol. Phil. & Econ. 191 (2004).
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In the Media

"Not Getting Any Younger: President Obama's Penchant for Older Judges Scuttled Goodwin Liu" (Slate, 05/26/2011)
"Old World: Why Isn't Obama Appointing Young Judges to the Circuit Courts?" (The New Republic, 07/17/2009)