Micah Schwartzman

University of Virginia School of Law

Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law

580 Massie Road

Charlottesville, VA 22903

United States

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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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What if Religion Isn't Special?

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 4, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-03
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 29 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2012
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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First Amendment, Religion Clauses, secular purpose, religious accommodation, public reason, originalism

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The Unreasonableness of Catholic Integralism

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 56, 2019, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-43
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2020
Micah Schwartzman and Jocelyn Wilson
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia - School of Law, Alumnus or Degree Candidate Author
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liberalism, reasonableness, Catholicism, integralism, religious freedom

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Establishment Clause Appeasement

2019 Supreme Court Review 271, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-17, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-12
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Micah Schwartzman and Nelson Tebbe
University of Virginia School of Law and Cornell Law School
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appeasement, compromise, cooptation, Establishment Clause, First Amendment

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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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The Sincerity of Public Reason

Journal of Political Philosophy, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-03
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Jan 2010
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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Political liberalism, public reason, public justification, sincerity, John Rawls

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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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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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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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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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The Ethics of Reasoning from Conjecture

Journal of Moral Philosophy, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-02
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2011
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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political liberalism, public reason, nonpublic reason, justification, Rawls

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Religion, Equality, and Public Reason

Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2014-27
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2018
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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Religion, Equality, Public Reason, Religious Clauses, First Amendment, Ronald Dworkinma separated

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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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Morality, Ontology, and Corporate Rights

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 21
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Feb 2016
Steven D. Walt and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Official Intentions and Political Legitimacy: The Case of the Travel Ban

NOMOS LXI: Political Legitimacy, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-22
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 02 May 2018
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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intention, permissibility, legitimacy, travel ban, Establishment Clause, First Amendment

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Judicial Sincerity

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 4, 2008
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2010
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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judicial candor, sincerity, publicity, public justification, legal justification

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Religion as a Legal Proxy

51 San Diego L. Rev. 1085 (2014), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2014-26
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2015
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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Religion, Conscience, Religion Clauses, First Amendment, Andrew Koppelman

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Conscience, Speech, and Money

Virginia Law Review, April 2011, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-04
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 02 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2011
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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First Amendment, Establishment Clause, Religion, Conscience, Government Speech, Compelled Support

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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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The Politics of Proportionality

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-28, 120 Michigan Law Review 1307 (2022), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-19
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 05 May 2022
Nelson Tebbe and Micah Schwartzman
Cornell Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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proportionality, constitutional rights, judicial decisionmaking, polarization, Supreme Court

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Second Order Decisions in Rights Conflicts

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-51, U of Houston Law Center No. 2022-A-13, Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
James David Nelson and Micah Schwartzman
University of Houston Law Center and University of Virginia School of Law
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second order decisions, hard cases, legal indeterminacy, incompleteness, conflict avoidance

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The Etiquette of Animus

Harvard Law Review, Vol. I32, No. 1, p. 33-70, 2018, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-62
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Nov 2018
Leslie Kendrick and Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 192 (288,790)

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Religious liberty, LGBT rights, animus, etiquette, civility, First Amendment

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Must Laws Be Motivated by Public Reason?

Public Reason and Courts (Silje Langvatn, et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-41
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Aug 2019
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 190 (290,154)

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public reason, motivation, permissibility, legitimacy, liberalism

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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 Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty

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The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 14
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Feb 2016
Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders and Zoe Robinson
University of Virginia School of Law, Saint Louis University - School of Law and Australian National University, School of Politics and International Relations
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religious liberty, corporate rights, church autonomy, freedom of the church, Hosanna-Tabor, Hobby Lobby

The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty

Zoë Robinson, Chad Flanders, and Micah Schwartzman, eds., The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2015, Forthcoming)
Posted: 19 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2015
Zoe Robinson, Chad Flanders and Micah Schwartzman
Australian National University, School of Politics and International Relations, Saint Louis University - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

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Hobby Lobby, religious institutionalism, corporate religious liberty, law and religion, constitutional law, constitutional theory, First Amendment, church and state

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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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Obligation, Anarchy, and Exemption

Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2013-05
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Micah Schwartzman
University of Virginia School of Law
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Re-upping Appeasement: Religious Freedom and Judicial Politics in the 2019 Term

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-68, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-40, 2019-2020 ACS Supreme Court Review 115
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2020
Nelson Tebbe and Micah Schwartzman
Cornell Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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appeasement, religious freedom, judicial decisionmaking, First Amendment, Supreme Court