Frederick Schauer

Biography

Frederick Schauer is a David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Previously, he served for 18 years as Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he served as academic dean and acting dean. Before that he was a professor of law at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Law of Obscenity (BNA, 1976), Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (Cambridge, 1982), Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (Clarendon/Oxford, 1991), Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Belknap/Harvard, 2003), and Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard, 2009). He is also co-editor of The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings (1996) and The First Amendment: A Reader (1995), and author of numerous articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning, and the philosophy of law.

Schauer is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, has served as vice president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and as chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Law of the American Philosophical Association. He was a founding co-editor of the journal Legal Theory and has also been the Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and Distinguished Visitor at the New York University School of Law. His work on rules, legal reasoning, constitutional theory, and freedom of speech has been the subject of a book, Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer (Hart, 1999), and symposia in Politeia, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Notre Dame, Connecticut, and Quinnipiac law reviews. In 2007–08, Schauer was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University and a fellow of Balliol College. A graduate of Dartmouth College, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and Harvard Law School, Schauer was the recipient of a university-wide Distinguished Teacher Award from Harvard University in 2004.

Selected Publications

• The Theory of Rules, by Karl Llewellyn, edited and with an introduction by Frederick Schauer (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2011)
• Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard University Press, 2009) (Spanish edition, Madrid, Marcel Pons Ediciones, translation in progress) (Portugese edition, Madrid, Marcial Pons Ediciones, translation in progress) (South Asia edition, Universal Law Publishing Company, forthcoming 2011)
• Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 2003) (paperback edition, 2006) (Italian edition, Di Ogni Erba un Fascio: Generalizzazioni, Profili, Stereotipi nel Mondo della Giustizia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008)
• Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press, 1991) (paperback edition, 1992) (Italian edition, La Regole del Gioco, Bologna, il Mulino, 2000) (Spanish edition, Las Reglas en Juego, Madrid, Marcel Pons Ediciones, 2004)
• The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings with Commentary (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) (Harcourt Brace/Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Supplements to Gunther, Constititional Law (Foundation Press, 1983-1996)
• Law and Language (editor) (Dartmouth/Gower/Ashgate Publishing Company, 1992)
• The First Amendment: A Reader (with John H. Garvey) (West Publishing Company, 1992. Second edition, 1995, Third edition, in progress)
• Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (Cambridge University Press, 1982) (paperback edition, 1982) (Turkish edition, İfade Özgürlüğű: Felsefǐ Bir İnceleme, Ankara, Liberal Dűşűnce Topluluğu, 2002)