Aaron Saiger

• Professor of Law, Fordham University (2010-present)
• Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University (2003-2010)
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2007)
• Law Clerk, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States (2001-2002)
• Law Clerk, Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2000-2001)

Education

• PhD, Princeton University (Public Affairs, 2004)
• JD, Columbia University (2000)
• AB, Harvard College (1988)

Representative Publications

Schoolhouse in the Cloud (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

"How Institutional Speech Erodes Academic Freedom", in 1 The Free Inquiry Papers:  Free Inquiry and its Discontents (Robert Maranto et al. eds, American Enterprise Institute Press forthcoming Spring 2025).

Derailing the Deference Lockstep, "103 Boston University L. Rev. 1879"(2022).

More than Merit:  Reframing the Debate over Examination-Based Admissions in Public Schools, "50 Fordham Urban Law Journal"1003 (2022).

"Education in Virtual Environments", in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law (Kristine Bowman ed., Oxford University Press 2021).

School Funding under the Neutrality Principle:  Notes on a Post-Espinoza Future, "88 Fordham Law Review Online 213" (2020).

"State Regulation of Curriculum in Private Religious Schools: A Constitutional Analysis", in Yeshivas versus the State of New York:  A Case Study in Religious Liberty in Education (Jay Greene & Jason Bedrick eds., Rowman & Littlefield 2020).

Unbundling School, 5 Education Law and Policy Rev. 1 (2019).

The Tactics of Title IX, 13 Journal of School Choice 438 (2019) (reviewing R. Shep Melnick, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education (2018)). 

Deconstitutionalizing Dewey, 13 Fla. Int’l. U. L. Rev. 765 (2019).

Agencies’ Obligation to Interpret the Statute, 69 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1231 (2016).

Homeschooling, Virtual Schools, and the Erosion of the Public/Private Binary, 10 Journal of School Choice 297 (2016).

Local Government as a Choice of Agency Form, 77 Ohio State L.J. 423 (2016).

Test Unrest, 20 CityLaw 1 (2015).

Chevron and Deference in State Administrative Law, 82 Fordham L. Rev. 555 (2014)

What We Disagree About When We Disagree About School Choice (response), Iowa Law Bulletin 99 Iowa L. Rev. Bulletin 49 (2014)

Charter Schools, The Establishment Clause, and the Neoliberal Turn in Public Education, 34 Cardozo L. Rev. 1163 (2013)

Religious Consumers and Institutional Challenges to American Public Schools, 1 Journal of Law, Religion, and State 180 (2012)

Changing the Conversation in Education Law: Political Geography and Virtual Schooling, 41 Journal of Law and Education 337 (2012)

Obama's "Czars" for Domestic Policy and the Law of the White House Staff 79 Fordham Law Review 2577 (2011)

The School District Boundary Problem, 42 Urban L. 495 (2010).

Local Government without Tiebout, 41 Urban L. 93 (2009).

School Choice and States' Duty to Support 'Public' Schools, 48 Boston College L. Rev. 909 (2007).

The Role of Empirical Research in Informing Debates about the Constitutionality of School Choice, 1 J. School Choice 123 (2006).

The Last Wave: The Rise of the Contingent School District. 84 North Carolina L. Rev. 857 (2006).

Legislating Accountability: Standards, Sanctions, and School District Reform. 46 William & Mary L. Rev. 1655 (2005).

Constitutional Partnerships and the States. 73 Fordham L. Rev. 1439 (2005).

Disestablishing Local School Districts as a Remedy for Educational Inadequacy. 99 Colum. L. Rev. 1830 (1999).

The Federal Role in Crime Control (with John J. DiIulio, Jr. and Steven K. Smith), in Crime (James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia eds., ICS Press 1995).