Philip G. Schrag
Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies, Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law
A.B., Harvard; LL.B., Yale
Areas of Expertise:
Clinical Education, Immigration Law, Legal Profession and Professional Ethics
Professor Schrag teaches Civil Procedure and directs the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students represent refugees from persecution who are seeking asylum in...
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Professor Schrag teaches Civil Procedure and directs the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students represent refugees from persecution who are seeking asylum in the United States. Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1981, he was assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Educational Fund, Consumer Advocate of the City of New York, a professor at Columbia University Law School, and Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, from which he received a Meritorious Honor Award in 1981. Professor Schrag has also had a distinguished and varied career in civic service, which has included positions as a delegate to the District of Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention in 1982, an editor and consultant on consumer protection during the Carter-Mondale transition, a consultant to the New York State Consumer Protection Board, a consultant to the Governor's Advisory Council of Puerto Rico, an advisor to the Committee of Chinese Legal Educators, and an Academic Specialist for the United States Information Agency in the Czech Republic and Hungary. In addition, he drafted New York City's Consumer Protection Act of 1969. He is also a prolific author, having written dozens of articles on consumer law, nuclear arms control, political asylum, and various other topics for both law journals and popular publications. He is the author, or co-author, of fourteen books, including Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform (with Jaya Ramji-Nogales and Andrew I. Schoenholtz) (N.Y.U. Press 2009), Asylum Denied (with David Ngaruri Kenney) (Univ of California Press 2008) and the innovative professional responsibility textbook Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law (with Professor Lisa G. Lerman) (Aspen Publishers, 3d ed. 2012). He has been honored with the Association of American Law Schools' Deborah L. Rhode Award for Advancing Public Service Opportunities in Law Schools through Scholarship, Service and Leadership, the Association of American Law Schools William Pincus Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Legal Education, Lexis/Nexis' Daniel Levy Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Immigration Law, and the Outstanding Law School Faculty Award of Equal Justice Works, for leadership in nurturing a spirit of public service in legal education and beyond.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz & Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security (New York: NYU Press forthcoming).
- Philip G. Schrag, Brian Tamanaha’s Misguided Missile, Geo. J. Legal Ethics (forthcoming). [SSRN]
- Philip G. Schrag, Why Would Anyone Want to be a Public Interest Lawyer?, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
Books
- Philip G. Schrag & Lisa G. Lerman, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law: Concise Edition for Two-Credit Courses (New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2013). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag & Lisa G. Lerman, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law (New York: Aspen Publishers 3d ed. 2012). [BOOK]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz & Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security (New York: NYU Press forthcoming).
- Philip G. Schrag, Brian Tamanaha’s Misguided Missile, Geo. J. Legal Ethics (forthcoming). [SSRN]
- Philip G. Schrag, Why Would Anyone Want to be a Public Interest Lawyer?, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
Books
- Philip G. Schrag & Lisa G. Lerman, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law: Concise Edition for Two-Credit Courses (New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2013). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag & Lisa G. Lerman, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law (New York: Aspen Publishers 3d ed. 2012). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz & Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform (New York: NYU Press 2009). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag & Lisa G. Lerman, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law (New York: Aspen Publishers 2d ed. 2008). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag & David Ngaruri Kenney, Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America (Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press 2008). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag & Lisa G. Lerman, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law (New York: Aspen Publishers 2005). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag, Repay As You Earn: The Flawed Government Program to Help Students Have Public Service Careers (Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey 2002). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag, A Well-Founded Fear: The Congressional Battle to Save Political Asylum in America (New York: Routledge Press 2000). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Philip G. Schrag & Charles W. Pruett, Coordinating Loan Repayment Assistance Programs with New Federal Legislation, 60 J. Legal Educ. 583-612 (2011). [HEIN] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales & James P. Dombach, Rejecting Refugees: Homeland Security's Administration of the One-Year Bar to Asylum, 52 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 651-804 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Philip G. Schrag, Federal Student Loan Repayment Assistance for Public Interest Lawyers and Other Employees of Governments and Nonprofit Organizations, 36 Hofstra L. Rev. 27-63 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz & Jaya Ranji-Nogales, Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication, 60 Stan. L. Rev. 295-412 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Philip G. Schrag, The Federal Income-Contingent Repayment Option for Law Student Loans, 29 Hofstra L. Rev. 733-862 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Philip G. Schrag & Michele R. Pistone, The New Asylum Rule: Improved but Still Unfair, 16 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 1-79 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Philip G. Schrag & Michael Meltsner, Negotiating Tactics for Legal Services Lawyers, in What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators 205-211 (Carrie Menkel-Meadow & Michael Wheeler eds., San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 2004). [BOOK]
- Philip G. Schrag, Conclusion: The Extension of Politics by Other Means, in The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking: A Collection of Essays 251-260 (M. Dane Waters ed., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2001). [BOOK]
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
- Philip G. Schrag, Teaching Legal Ethics Through Role Playing, 12 Legal Ethics 35-57 (2009).
- Philip G. Schrag & Michael Meltsner, Negotiating Tactics for Legal Services, 39 Clearinghouse Rev. 589-593 (2006). [WWW]
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