Pierre Schlag

Pierre Schlag (born March 3, 1954) is a legal theorist and the Byron R. White Professor at the University of Colorado Law School.{{cite web|title=Pierre Schlag - Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty|url=http://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=49|work=Colorado Law|publisher=University of Colorado Boulder|access-date=10 October 2013}} Generally associated with the critical legal studies movement and school of legal thought, his contributions to the modern legal canon have primarily focused on the subjects of aesthetics and the law,{{cite journal|last=Schlag|first=Pierre|title=The Aesthetics of American Law|journal=Harvard Law Review|year=2002|volume=115|issue=4 |pages=1047–1118 |doi=10.2307/1342629|jstor=1342629|ssrn=975805|s2cid=59502957}} Constitutional interpretation,{{cite journal|last=Schlag|first=Pierre|title=No Vehicles in the Park|journal=Seattle University Law Review|year=1999|volume=23|page=381|url=http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1623&context=sulr|access-date=10 October 2013}} deconstruction,{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} subjectivity,{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} and broader 'meta' critiques of legal institutions, publications, and thought.{{cite journal|last=Schlag|first=Pierre|title=Spam Jurisprudence, Air Law, and the Rank Anxiety of Nothing Happening (a Report on the State of the Art)|journal=Georgetown Law Journal|date=March 2009|volume=97|page=803|url=http://georgetown.lawreviewnetwork.com/files/pdf/97-3/Schlag.PDF|access-date=10 October 2013}} He is also the author of a work of fiction, American Absurd.{{cite web|url=https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/08/american-absurd.html|title=TaxProf Blog: American Absurd|website=taxprof.typepad.com|access-date=12 April 2019}}