Frederick Schauer
{{Short description|American legal scholar (1946–2024)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Frederick Schauer
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|01|15}}
| birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|09|01|1946|01|15}}
| death_place = Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
| occupation = Law professor, jurist
| education = Dartmouth College (BA, MBA)
Harvard University (JD)
| employer = University of Virginia School of Law
Kennedy School of Government
| known_for = American constitutional law
Free speech
}}
Frederick Franklin Schauer (January 15, 1946 – September 1, 2024) was an American legal scholar who served as David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He was also the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.{{Cite web |url=https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/fs7t/1206076 |title=Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law |website=University of Virginia School of Law |date=July 22, 2016 |access-date=2021-10-31}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bjutijdschriften.nl/tijdschrift/rechtsfilosofieentheorie/2010/1/RenR_1875-2306_2010_039_001_005 |title=Everything we do is tentative. An interview with Prof. Frederick Schauer |website=Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy |access-date=2016-03-13}} He was well known for his work on American constitutional law, free speech, and on legal reasoning, especially the nature and value of legal formalism.
Life
Schauer was born in Newark, New Jersey, on January 15, 1946, and graduated from Teaneck High School.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/491668712/ "Margery Stone is Engaged to Frederick F. Schauer"], The Record, January 9, 1968. Accessed September 22, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Mr. Schauer was graduated from Teaneck High School and Dartmouth College. He will receive a Master of Business Administration degree from the Amos Tuck school at Dartmouth in June and will then attend law school." In his 1982 book Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry, Schauer says that government attempts to restrict freedom of expression have resulted in a disproportionate number of government mistakes. He argued that when governments restrict expression, they are incentivized to censor criticism of themselves, which makes it harder for them to assess the cost and benefits of their subsequent actions.{{Cite book |title=Canadian Constitutional Law |publisher=Emond Montgomery Publications Limited |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-77255-070-2 |editor-last=Macklem |editor-first=Peter |edition=5th |location=Toronto |pages=991 |editor-last2=Rogerson |editor-first2=Carol}} He died from renal disease in Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 1, 2024, at the age of 78.{{cite web|title=Frederick Schauer, Scholar Who Scrutinized Free Speech, Dies at 78|publisher=The New York Times|last=Rosenwald|first=Michael S.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/us/frederick-schauer-dies.html|date=September 18, 2024|access-date=September 18, 2024}}https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/202409/memoriam-professor-frederick-schauer-giant-legal-academy
Education
- J.D. Harvard Law School 1972
- M.B.A. Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College 1968
- A.B. Dartmouth College 1967
Publications
- Analogy, Expertise, and Experience, 249 U. Chi. L. Rev. 84 (2017).{{Cite web |url=https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/analogy-expertise-and-experience |title=Analogy, Expertise, and Experience {{!}} The University of Chicago Law Review|website=lawreview.uchicago.edu|access-date=2020-01-21}}
- The Force of Law (2015).[http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1932-1979-Online.pdf Reviewed] by Mark Greenberg, How to Explain Things with Force, 129 Harv. L. Rev. 1932 (2016).
- The Theory of Rules, by Karl Llewellyn, edited and with an introduction by Schauer (2011).
- Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (2009).
- [https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/schauer.pdf The Supreme Court, 2005 Term — Foreword: The Court’s Agenda – And the Nation’s], 120 Harv. L. Rev. 4 (2006).
- Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (2003).Reviewed by {{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Felicia R. |title=Discriminating? Yes. Discriminatory? No. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/13/books/discriminating-yes-discriminatory-no.html |access-date=October 14, 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=December 13, 2003}}
- Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (1991).Reviewed by {{cite journal |last1=Rakowski |first1=Eric |title=Book Review |journal=Ethics |date=July 1993 |volume=103 |issue=4 |pages=828–830 |doi=10.1086/293562}}
- The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings with Commentary (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) (1996).
- Supplements to Gunther, Constitutional Law (1983–1996).
- Law and Language (editor) (1992).
- The First Amendment: A Reader (with John H. Garvey) (1992).
- Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (1982).
- The Law of Obscenity (1976).
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schauer, Frederick}}
Category:American legal scholars
Category:Harvard University faculty
Category:University of Virginia School of Law faculty
Category:Harvard Law School alumni
Category:Teaneck High School alumni
Category:Tuck School of Business alumni
Category:Lawyers from Newark, New Jersey
{{US-legal-academic-bio-stub}}
{{US-law-bio-stub}}