Micah Schwartzman is Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He will be visiting UCLA School of Law in the spring of 2013, teaching Constitutional Law I.
Schwartzman researches and writes in the fields of law and religion, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. His recent publications include: Against Religious Institutionalism, 99 Va. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013) (with Richard Schragger); What If Religion Is Not Special? 79 U. Chi. L. Rev. 101 (2013); The Ethics of Reasoning from Conjecture, J. Moral Phil. (2012); The Sincerity of Public Reason, J. Pol. Phil. (2011); and Conscience, Speech, and Money, 97 Va. L. Rev. 317 (2011).
Schwartzman graduated with Highest Honors from the University of Virginia (1998) with a B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs. He received his doctorate in Politics in 2003 from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Schwartzman graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2005. After law school, Schwartzman clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2005-2006) and spent a year as a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University (2006-2007). He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law in 2007.