Frederick Schauer

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Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 113
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Phone: 617-495-8737
Fax: 617-495-8696
Email: fred_schauer@Harvard.Edu
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Darrick Northington (617-495-8269)
Frederick Schauer

Profile

FREDERICK SCHAUER is Frank Stanton Professor of the FirstAmendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,where he has served as Academic Dean and Acting Dean. Formerly Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, Schauer also teaches courses in Evidence and the First Amendment and supervises graduate students in Jurisprudence and Comparative Constitutional Law at the Harvard Law School. 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), and Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Harvard, 2003); co-editor of The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Oxford, 1996) and The First Amendment: A Reader (West, 1992, 1995); and has written more than 200 published articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning, and the philosophy of law. Schauer's work in jurisprudence focuses on the analysis of rules and the nature of legal sources, his work on constitutional law and human rights on freedom of expression and constitutional interpretation, and he is completing a book (Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard, 2008)) on the forms of legal reasoning and argument. More recently he has been writing about evidence from both legal and philosophical perspectives, and attempting to connect philosophical issues of epistemology with legal issues of evidence and proof. Schauer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, serves currently as Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Law of the American Philosophical Association, and was a founding co-editor of the journal Legal Theory. He has also been the Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the Universityof 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 (Linda Meyer, ed., 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 2007-2008 Schauer is the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College, and upon his return to Harvard in 2008 he will become Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. A graduate of Dartmouth College, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and the Harvard Law School, Schauer has lectured and taught in Canada, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Great Britain, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Portugal, Ireland, Finland, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, India, the Netherlands, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, and China, has advised on issues of legal and constitutional development in or for Estonia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Belarus, South Africa, Vietnam, and the Faroe Islands, and was the recipient of a university-wide Distinguished Teacher Award from Harvard University in 2004.

Courses

Fall

  • API-461 ID/Law and Legal Institutions in Development

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