David Schleicher
@profschleich.bsky.social
Professor, Yale Law School.
Getting to do this lecture -- which sought to provide a structural explanation for why urban public services in America struggle despite the high productivity of our private sector -- was such a thrill! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
Professor David Schleicher Delivers Inaugural Walter E. Meyer Lecture
Professor David N. Schleicher delivered his inaugural lecture — “Broken Machines: Law and the Challenge of Making Big Cities Work — before an audience of friends, family, and members of the Yale commu...
law.yale.edu
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Getting to do this lecture -- which sought to provide a structural explanation for why urban public services in America struggle despite the high productivity of our private sector -- was such a thrill! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
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OPINION TODAY featured podcast —
@samuelmoyn.bsky.social and @profschleich.bsky.social speak with @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social about his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
(Digging a Hole)
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@samuelmoyn.bsky.social and @profschleich.bsky.social speak with @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social about his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
(Digging a Hole)
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/177452350/...
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
OPINION TODAY featured podcast —
@samuelmoyn.bsky.social and @profschleich.bsky.social speak with @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social about his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
(Digging a Hole)
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/177452350/...
@samuelmoyn.bsky.social and @profschleich.bsky.social speak with @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social about his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
(Digging a Hole)
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/177452350/...
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A new pod episode! Come for the nudist beach scenes from the 1920s—stay for fights over the material foundations of 20th-c liberalisms.
🚨🚨New Pod!! 🚨🚨 We have @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social on the pod!!! @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and I talk with John about his amazing and must read new book, The Radical Fund podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast
Social Sciences Podcast · Yale Law School professors Samuel Moyn and David Schleicher interview legal scholars and dig into the debates heard inside law school halls.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A new pod episode! Come for the nudist beach scenes from the 1920s—stay for fights over the material foundations of 20th-c liberalisms.
🚨🚨New Pod!! 🚨🚨 We have @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social on the pod!!! @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and I talk with John about his amazing and must read new book, The Radical Fund podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast
Social Sciences Podcast · Yale Law School professors Samuel Moyn and David Schleicher interview legal scholars and dig into the debates heard inside law school halls.
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨🚨New Pod!! 🚨🚨 We have @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social on the pod!!! @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and I talk with John about his amazing and must read new book, The Radical Fund podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Lol, @profschleich.bsky.social was so real for pointing out a lot of housing in New York is ancient (and often kind of shitty): NYC actually does a GREAT job preserving (old as hell) housing!
October 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Lol, @profschleich.bsky.social was so real for pointing out a lot of housing in New York is ancient (and often kind of shitty): NYC actually does a GREAT job preserving (old as hell) housing!
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I really appreciate the point from @profschleich.bsky.social that focusing on modest reduction in ULURP process length is misguided, as difficulty and time to prepare for ULURP is determined by the requirements of the process. The charter amendments will improve the full approval process.
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I really appreciate the point from @profschleich.bsky.social that focusing on modest reduction in ULURP process length is misguided, as difficulty and time to prepare for ULURP is determined by the requirements of the process. The charter amendments will improve the full approval process.
Really excited to deliver this lecture on political and structural explanations for the (lack of) quality of big city government services and regulations. Open to the Yale community. On October 27th, register now! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
Professor David Schleicher to Present Inaugural Walter E. Meyer Lecture on Oct. 27
Professor David N. Schleicher will present the inaugural lecture of his appointment as Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, titled “Broken Machines: Law and the Challenge of Making Big...
law.yale.edu
October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Really excited to deliver this lecture on political and structural explanations for the (lack of) quality of big city government services and regulations. Open to the Yale community. On October 27th, register now! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
With proper link - i wrote this www.slowboring.com/p/eric-adams
September 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
With proper link - i wrote this www.slowboring.com/p/eric-adams
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Slow Boring forecast that Eric Adams might accomplish good things or housing or might devolve into an orgy of corruption.
Turns out it was both.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-path-f...
Turns out it was both.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-path-f...
September 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Slow Boring forecast that Eric Adams might accomplish good things or housing or might devolve into an orgy of corruption.
Turns out it was both.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-path-f...
Turns out it was both.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-path-f...
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Our Latest Podcast: Won't You Take Me To YIMBYTown?
Recorded before a live audience at @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025! With @profschleich.bsky.social @andrewdfine.bsky.social & Ari Bargil of @ij.org!
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Recorded before a live audience at @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025! With @profschleich.bsky.social @andrewdfine.bsky.social & Ari Bargil of @ij.org!
ij.org/podcasts/sho...
ij.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Won't You Take Me To YIMBYTown?
Recorded before a live audience at @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025! With @profschleich.bsky.social @andrewdfine.bsky.social & Ari Bargil of @ij.org!
ij.org/podcasts/sho...
Recorded before a live audience at @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025! With @profschleich.bsky.social @andrewdfine.bsky.social & Ari Bargil of @ij.org!
ij.org/podcasts/sho...
🚨New Pod!!🚨Sam Moyn and I kick off a new season of Digging a Hole by talking with the great Bob Bauer about the law and politics of executive power podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Bob Bauer
Podcast Episode · Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast · 09/19/2025 · 1h 6m
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September 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚨New Pod!!🚨Sam Moyn and I kick off a new season of Digging a Hole by talking with the great Bob Bauer about the law and politics of executive power podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Who isn't at those community board meetings where people line up to oppose developments? @profschleich.bsky.social explains why NIMBYism is so successful: it's about who attends versus who is actually impacted. This is democracy meets housing policy.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/loc...
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/loc...
Vital City | Local Democracy is Land-Use Policy
NIMBYism is an outgrowth of the shape of civic participation in our cities — and producing more housing means changing the dynamics.
www.vitalcitynyc.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Who isn't at those community board meetings where people line up to oppose developments? @profschleich.bsky.social explains why NIMBYism is so successful: it's about who attends versus who is actually impacted. This is democracy meets housing policy.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/loc...
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/loc...
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Out today: The Fall of Affirmative Action, by Justin Driver www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
September 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Out today: The Fall of Affirmative Action, by Justin Driver www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
Justin Driver's new book is out today -- as smart and spicy a set of arguments as you'll find anywhere. One of our most essential public intellectuals. A must, must, must read. www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education
The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education [Driver, Justin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education
www.amazon.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Justin Driver's new book is out today -- as smart and spicy a set of arguments as you'll find anywhere. One of our most essential public intellectuals. A must, must, must read. www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
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"This brazen gambit should fail — for two reasons. First, the ballot language is plenty clear. Second, the BOE has no power to reject proposed charter revisions."
Vital City | Let New York Vote for More Housing
Stop the underhanded campaign against charter revision ballot proposals.
www.vitalcitynyc.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"This brazen gambit should fail — for two reasons. First, the ballot language is plenty clear. Second, the BOE has no power to reject proposed charter revisions."
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I think the commonwealth desperately needs procedural simplification to help upzoning stick in addition to the legal perseverance @profschleich.bsky.social recommends: www.theargumentmag.com/p/yimbys-bea...
September 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I think the commonwealth desperately needs procedural simplification to help upzoning stick in addition to the legal perseverance @profschleich.bsky.social recommends: www.theargumentmag.com/p/yimbys-bea...
The complex interpretations of the NBA Constitution, evidentiary issues, and concerns about bias make the case for taking interpretative responsibility out of the hands of the Commissioner and putting it in the hands of a private-Court like institution papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The complex interpretations of the NBA Constitution, evidentiary issues, and concerns about bias make the case for taking interpretative responsibility out of the hands of the Commissioner and putting it in the hands of a private-Court like institution papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
Vital City | Mamdani’s Facilitators, Frenemies or Foes
What the Democratic nominee promises may be less important than what these groups do.
www.vitalcitynyc.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
Vital City | Mamdani’s Facilitators, Frenemies or Foes
What the Democratic nominee promises may be less important than what these groups do.
www.vitalcitynyc.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
Gross. It is far, far, far easier to understand what these ballot measures will do than it is to know anything relevant about city council candidates!
NYC Council urges Board of Elections to block Mayor Adams’ housing ballot proposals https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-council-urges-board-of-elections-to-block-mayor-adams-housing-ballot-proposals
NYC Council urges Board of Elections to block Mayor Adams’ housing ballot proposals
Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is leading a bipartisan coalition to block the mayor's ballot proposals.
Council leadership says the proposal language, which would fast-track certain development projects, is misleading. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Gross. It is far, far, far easier to understand what these ballot measures will do than it is to know anything relevant about city council candidates!
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Also, two more examples for @profschleich.bsky.social
www.bisnow.com/washington-d...
citybuildernc.org/p/raleighs-m...
www.bisnow.com/washington-d...
citybuildernc.org/p/raleighs-m...
'Broken Process': Why 4,000 Units Of D.C. Housing Are Stuck In Federal Court
With 4,000 units of D.C. housing awaiting the decision of federally appointed judges, developers and planners say the process is stifling the District's growth
www.bisnow.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Also, two more examples for @profschleich.bsky.social
www.bisnow.com/washington-d...
citybuildernc.org/p/raleighs-m...
www.bisnow.com/washington-d...
citybuildernc.org/p/raleighs-m...
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This morning, OG YIMBY @profschleich.bsky.social argues that the pro-housing movement needs to focus more on the problem of state trial court judges.
September 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This morning, OG YIMBY @profschleich.bsky.social argues that the pro-housing movement needs to focus more on the problem of state trial court judges.
I have a new essay @theargument.bsky.social on the increasingly challenging problem of NIMBY state trial court judges.
September 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I have a new essay @theargument.bsky.social on the increasingly challenging problem of NIMBY state trial court judges.
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Filtering happening in real time in Jersey City
New Wang Wang Restaurant is now Old Wang Wang Restaurant.
Bergen Ave, McGinley Sq, JC
Bergen Ave, McGinley Sq, JC
August 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Filtering happening in real time in Jersey City
Someone just asked about this piece of mine about how land use regulations will limit and shape the benefits of self-driving cars and other transportation technologies. It's nearly 10 years old, but I think it holds up!! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
How Land Use Law Impedes Transportation Innovation
A certain breed of economists and techno-futurists regularly point to the potential for innovation in the transportation sector to spur economic growth. Such p
papers.ssrn.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Someone just asked about this piece of mine about how land use regulations will limit and shape the benefits of self-driving cars and other transportation technologies. It's nearly 10 years old, but I think it holds up!! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....