Richard Schragger

University of Virginia School of Law

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1.

Religious Freedom and Abortion

108 Iowa L. Rev. 2299 (2023); Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023
Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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religious freedom, abortion, free exercise, Establishment Clause, Supreme Court

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The Attack on American Cities

University of Texas School of Law, Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-46
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 28 Aug 2017
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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preemption, cities, municipal law, states, federalism, anti-urbanism, sanctuary cities, home rule, Trump

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The Anti-Chain Store Movement, Localist Ideology, and the Remnants of the Progressive Constitution, 1920-1940

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 29 Jun 2005
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 654 (74,946)
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chain stores, Brandeis, anti-trust, Lochner, Progressivism, Constitution, legal history, Great Depression, localism, Wal-Mart, anti-chain store movement, New Deal, monopoly, Curse of Bigness, consumers, producers

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Against Religious Institutionalism

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 5, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-62
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 26 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2013
Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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church and state, free exercise clause, freedom of the church, religion, ministerial exception

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When Do Religious Accommodations Burden Others?

The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality (Susanna Mancini & Michel Rosenfeld eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017 Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-25, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-44
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 26 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2016
Nelson Tebbe, Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger
Cornell Law School, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age: Introduction - Cities, Capital, and Constitutions

City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age (Oxford 2016), Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2016-10, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-48
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2016
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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city, urban policy, federalism, redistribution, living wage, urban resurgence, local government law, urban politics

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How Much May Religious Accommodations Burden Others?

in Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Elizabeth Sepper, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and I. Glenn Cohen, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017 Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-25, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-43
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2016
Nelson Tebbe, Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger
Cornell Law School, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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religious freedom, free exercise, establishment clause, civil rights

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The Costs of Conscience

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-14, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-35, 106 Kentucky Law Journal 881 (2018)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2018
Micah Schwartzman, Nelson Tebbe and Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law, Cornell Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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religious liberty, freedom of conscience, third-party harm, constitutional rights

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The Perils Of Land Use Deregulation

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-11, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-20
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 07 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2022
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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land use, local government law, preemption, fair housing, affordable housing, zoning

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Some Realism about Corporate Rights

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2013-43
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2016
Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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religious liberty, contraception mandate, corporations, churches, group rights, corporate personality, free exercise, legal realism, H.L.A. Hart, John Dewey

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Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Local Economic Development

University of Chicago Law Review, 2009, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2009-09
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2010
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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cities, economic development, local government, location subsidies, new economic geography

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Jews, Not Pagans

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2019, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-67
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2020
Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Christian, Pagan, Jew, secularism, liberalism, religion, First Amendment

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Religious Antiliberalism and the First Amendment

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-37, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 104, 2019
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2020
Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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illiberalism, liberalism, religion, church and state, religion clauses, First Amendment, Free Exercise Clause, Establishment Clause, Supreme Court

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Federalism, Metropolitanism, and the Problem of States

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 105, 2019 , Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-28
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 07 May 2019 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2020
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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federalism, states, cities, metropolitanism, fiscal federalism, preemption, sorting, agglomeration

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Decentralization and Development

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-31, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2010-13
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 23 Oct 2010
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Mobile Capital, Local Economic Regulation, and the Democratic City

Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2009-03
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 17 Sep 2009
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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local government, minimum wage, living wage, anti-chain store, city, mobile capital, globalization, Wal Mart, community benefit agreements

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Democracy and Debt

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, p. 860, 2012, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-01
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2012
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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state bankruptcy, bailouts, budget crises, fiscal constitution, debt crises, sovereign debt, municipal debt, state debt

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Can Strong Mayors Empower Weak Cities? On the Power of Local Executives in a Federal System

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, 2006
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Jun 2006
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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cities, mayors, federalism, executive, municipal, strong mayor, mayor-council, council-manager, local government

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The Political Economy of City Power

Forthcoming 44 Fordham Urban Law Journal ___ (2017), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-21, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2017-09
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Apr 2017
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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cities, sanctuary cities, federalism, municipal bankruptcy, municipal receivership, the “right to the city”, regionalism, home rule, state-local relations, urban resurgence, municipal minimum wage

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Is a Progressive City Possible? Reviving Urban Liberalism for the Twenty-First Century

Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 7, p. 901, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2013-22
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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city, urban policy, right to the city, urban resurgence, inequality, urban liberalism, federalism, labor, living wage

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Reestablishing Religion

91 U. CHI. L. REV. (forthcoming 2024), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2024-18
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 21 Feb 2024
Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman and Nelson Tebbe
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and Cornell Law School
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religious freedom, disestablishment, free exercise, Religion Clauses, First Amendment, political economy, structural preferentialism

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The City in the Future of Federalism

Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory (Oxford University Press, 2022), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-48
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Oct 2021
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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federalism, cities, preemption, urbanization, subsidiarity, decentralization

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The Limits of Localism

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 298003
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 26 Jan 2002
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Confederate Monuments and Punitive Preemption: The Latest Assault on Local Democracy

Local Solutions Support Center, October 2019, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-54
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2020
Richard Schragger and C. Alex Retzloff
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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preemption, Confederate monuments, statue statutes, states, cities, First Amendment, Equal Protection

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Do Local Governments Really Have Too Much Power? Understanding the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century

North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-46
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Sep 2021
Nestor M. Davidson and Richard Schragger
Fordham University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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state and local government law, home rule, state constitutions, cities

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Cities, Economic Development, and the Free Trade Constitution

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2010
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Cities, local government, land use, property, dormant commerce clause, common market, takings clause, constitutional law

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The Role of the Local in the Doctrine and Discourse of Religious Liberty

UVA School of Law, Public Law Working Paper No. 03-18
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 09 Dec 2003
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Cities as Constitutional Actors: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage

Virginia Journal of Law & Politics, 2005
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jul 2005
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Same-Sex Marriage, constitutional law, local government law, equal protection, municipal corporations

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Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-16, National League of Cities. February 12, 2020., Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3539617
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 19 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2022
Richard Briffault, Nestor M. Davidson, Paul A. Diller, Sarah Fox, Laurie Reynolds, Erin Adele Scharff, Richard Schragger and Rick Su
Columbia Law School, Fordham University School of Law, Willamette University College of Law, Northern Illinois University - College of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of North Carolina School of Law
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state and local government law, state constitutional law, local government law, cities, urban law, home rule, preemption

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The Failure of Home Rule Reform in Virginia: Race, Localism, and the Constitution of 1971

Essays on the Constitution of Virginia (University of Virginia Press 2021), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-35
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
Richard Schragger and C. Alex Retzloff
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Virginia, home rule, Dillon’s Rule, state constitutional law, local government law, Jefferson

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San Antonio v. Rodriguez and the Legal Geography of School Finance Reform

CIVIL RIGHTS STORIES, Myriam Gilles & Risa Goluboff, eds., 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Apr 2010
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Legal History, Equal Protection, Supreme Court, Justice Powell, School Finance Reform, San Antonio

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The Relative Irrelevance of the Establishment Clause

Texas Law Review, Vol. 89, p. 583, 2011, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-15
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2011
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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First Amendment, church-state, Establishment Clause, religion

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Lost in Translation: A Dilemma for Freedom of the Church

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2013-04, Journal of Contemporary Legal issues, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Apr 2013
Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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free exercise clause, establishment clause, religion, freedom of the church, church and state, institutions

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Of Crosses and Confederate Monuments: A Theory of Unconstitutional Government Speech

Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-56
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 12 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2021
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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government speech, crosses, Confederate iconography, Supreme Court, Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause, Equal Protection Clause, expressive equal treatment, expressive theories of law

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Slipping from Secularism

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-75
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Nov 2022
Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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religious freedom, exemptions, First Amendment, secularism, liberalism, egalitarianism

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The Politics of Free Exercise After Employment Division v. Smith: Same-Sex Marriage, the 'War on Terror,' and Religious Freedom

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Apr 2011
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Free Exercise Clause, religion, Same-sex marriage, war on terror, Smith, RFRA, RLUIPA, Supreme Court

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The Last Progressive: Justice Breyer, Heller, and 'Judicial Judgment'

Syracuse Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Oct 2008
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Supreme Court, Gun rights

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Localism All the Way Up: Federalism, State-City Conflict, and the Urban-Rural Divide

Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-45
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Sep 2021
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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federalism, urban policy, city, local government law, state constitutions

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Establishment Clause Inversion in the Bladensburg Cross Case

ACS Supreme Court Review 2018-2019, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-55
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Oct 2019
Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Establishment Clause, Religion, Supreme Court, Cross, Free Exercise Clause, Christian Preferentialism

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When White Supremacists Invade a City

104 Va. L. Rev. Online 58 (2018), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-03
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Jan 2018
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Charlottesville, White Supremacists, Municipality, City Power, Federalism, Gun Control, Confederate Monuments, Municipal Speech

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What Is 'Government' 'Speech'? The Case of Confederate Monuments

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-34
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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First Amendment, free speech, government speech, equal protection, Confederate monuments, constitutional law

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Citizens versus Bondholders

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 39, p. 787, 2012, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-42, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2012-08
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2012
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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municipal default, bankruptcy, cities, bondholders, local government, local economic development

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Does Governance Matter? The Case of Business Improvement Districts and the Urban Resurgence

Drexel Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-32, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2010-14
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Oct 2010
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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The Progressive City

The Eleventh Annual Liman Public Interest Colloquium, 2010, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2009-16
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2009
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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cities, progressive, federalism, decentralization

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Obama’s Court?

Forthcoming, The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Julian E. Zelizer, Ed.) (Princeton University Press), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-43
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Aug 2017
Risa L. Goluboff and Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Supreme Court, President Obama, Judiciary, Scalia, Garland, Gorsuch, New Deal Settlement, Affordable Care Act

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Cities, Not States

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-29
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2023
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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local government law, federalism, fiscal federalism, cities, urban law and policy, rural/urban divide, preemption

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Do Investors Care About Municipal Debtors’ Access to Bankruptcy? Evidence from Bond Disclosures

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-13, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2023-04
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Feb 2023
Mitu Gulati and Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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municipal bonds, bankruptcy, securities, bond market, disclosure, Chapter 9

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Canvassing Boards

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 298005
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Jan 2002
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Seeing Like a Region

Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2023), forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-38
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 May 2023
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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regionalism, local government law, land use, housing

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The Cross, the Confederate, and the Constitution

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-30
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Apr 2023
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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First Amendment, church-state, constitutional law, compelled speech, equal protection, government speech, Confederate monuments, religious symbols

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Consuming Government

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 101, No. 6, 2003, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Richard Schragger
University of Virginia School of Law
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Local Government Law, Tiebout, home ownership, suburbs, city, consumer-voters, homevoters, zoning, land use, economic development

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Underdevelopment Despite Upzoning

Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2024-35, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2024-16
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Richard Schragger and Sarah New
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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zoning, land use, rents, housing affordability, local government, upzoning, densification