Schleicher appointed the Meyer Research Professor of Property and Urban Law
David Schleicher, an expert in local government law, land use, federalism, state and local finance, and urban development, has been appointed the Walter E. Meyer Research Professor of Property and Urban Law.
He has been a member of the Yale Law School faculty since 2015.
Schleicher’s work has been published widely in academic journals and popular outlets. He recently released a new book, “In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Fiscal Crises,” a review of the federal government’s responses to state and local budget crises, and has co-authored leading casebooks about local government and property law.
He is also the co-host of the popular podcast, “Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast.”
Schleicher has been called “the ideal legal scholar of cities” (Edward Glaeser, Harvard University), “the leading lawyer on state and city governments” (Richard Ravitch ’58, the late lieutenant governor of New York), and “one of the most brilliant and far-ranging political thinkers of his generation.” (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker).
In the media, he has been called “the most important thinker we have on the subject of local government” and “ingenious” by National Review and one of the “most interesting writers on land use” by Washington Monthly. His work has been discussed extensively in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and National Affairs, and Reuters, among other notable publications.
At Yale he has taught courses on local government law, state and local budget crises, procedure, and property law.
Schleicher was previously an associate professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, where he won the university’s Teaching Excellence Award. He has also taught at Georgetown, Harvard, and New York University.
He is a 2004 graduate of Harvard Law School. He also holds an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics and an AB in economics and government from Dartmouth College.