Shawn Bayern

{{short description|American legal scholar}}

Shawn J. Bayern is an American law professor. Before his legal career, he created several widely used computer-software systems and wrote several widely cited books on computer programming.

Biography

After graduating from Yale University, Bayern worked as a researcher at Yale University's Technology and Planning group,{{cite web | title=Technology & Planning Organizational Website | url=http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/TP/Home | accessdate=July 29, 2007 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804010145/http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/TP/Home | archivedate=August 4, 2007 }} there developing the Central Authentication Service.{{cite web | title=Authentication and Single Sign-on Using Java Technologies, Sun Products & Solutions | url=http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/success/pdf/yale_university.pdf

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As a student, he developed a reputation for becoming critical to the university's information systems and having full access to those systems.{{cite web

|title = Master of his Domain, Rumpus Magazine

|url = http://www.yale.edu/rumpus/archives/pdf/rumpus_99nov.pdf

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}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was the reference-implementation lead for JSTL{{cite web

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}} and sat on the specification committees that developed popular languages including JavaServer Pages,{{cite web

|title = JSP Specification

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JAX-RPC,{{cite web

|title = JAX-RPC Specification

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}} and JavaServer Faces.

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|title = JavaServer Faces Specification

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}} He wrote early books on JSTL and JSP.No Eclipse of Sun's Product, Business Line, March 31, 2004.M2 Presswire, Manning Publications, October 31, 2001. He is also the creator of Time Cave, a "message-scheduling service," and in the early 2000s of a machine-learning system for playing rock-paper-scissors against human opponents.{{Cite web |last1=Dance |first1=Gabriel |last2=Jackson |first2=Tom |title=Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=www.nytimes.com |language=en}}

After his computing career, Bayern went to Berkeley Law. There, he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review{{cite web | title=California Law Review 2005-06 Masthead | url=http://clr.boalt.org/mast05_06.php

| accessdate=July 29, 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070826235932/http://clr.boalt.org/mast05_06.php |archivedate = August 26, 2007}} and first in his class at graduation.{{cite web | title=Dean Stands in for Dean at Commencement, UC Berkeley Press Release

| url=http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/2006/commencement051606.html

| accessdate=July 29, 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070707144012/http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/2006/commencement051606.html |archivedate = July 7, 2007}} He then worked as a law clerk for Harris Hartz of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.{{cite web | title=Shawn Bayern Faculty Biography, Duke University | url=http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/bayern | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220213722/http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/bayern/ | archivedate=2007-12-20 }} He has also worked in the Office of the Solicitor General, on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, in the chambers of a United States District Judge in California, and at Covington & Burling, a Washington law firm. In 2017, he was elected to the American Law Institute and serves as advisor to several Restatement projects.{{Cite web |last=Institute |first=The American Law |title=Members Elected December 2017 |url=https://www.ali.org/members/newly-elected-members/december-2017/ |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=American Law Institute |language=en}}

Bayern is currently the Larry and Joyce Beltz Professor at Florida State University College of Law and also has served as a visiting professor of law at Duke Law School, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Berkeley Law. His books have critiqued law and economics,{{Cite book |last=Bayern |first=Shawn |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/analytical-failures-of-law-and-economics/624CFFA33D9DB348C83F86CF1669207F |title=The Analytical Failures of Law and Economics |date=2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-15921-0 |location=Cambridge}} and he is known for developing new theories for Algorithmic entities.{{Cite book |last=Bayern |first=Shawn |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/autonomous-organizations/B49E2F7D8689BDB8678C80B9DA795355 |title=Autonomous Organizations |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-83993-8 |location=Cambridge}}

Books

  • JSTL in Action (Manning Press 2003) ({{ISBN|1930110529}}).
  • Book Review: Java Bookshelf: Mark Cyzyk Reviews Shawn Bayern's JSTL in Action, Dr. Dobb's Journal, DDJ Java Programming E-zine, June 2003. [https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/33616]
  • Web Development with JavaServer Pages [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=10434582837967261781] (Manning Press 2002) (ISBN 193011012X).

Articles

  • Explaining the American Norm Against Litigation, 93 California Law Review 1697 (2006).
  • Minimal Backups, Sys Admin, Apr. 2001.
  • Making a Wish: The Web-Interface Shell, Sys Admin, Jul. 2000.
  • How to Crawl Back Inside Your Shell, Sys Admin, Nov. 1999.
  • Securing Public Workstations, Windows NT Magazine, Sept. 1999.
  • Automating Repetitive Tasks in NT, Windows NT Magazine, May 1998.

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