UVA Welcoms Leading First Amend Scholar to the Law School Faculty

Professor Frederick Schauer will join the faculty at UVA law school this fall.  From the UVA website:

Frederick Schauer, a leading expert on the First Amendment, constitutional law and legal philosophy, will join the University of Virginia Law School faculty in August. Schauer has served as the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government since 1990, and was previously professor of law at the University of Michigan. . . .

"We are delighted to welcome Fred Schauer to the University of Virginia," said Dean John C. Jeffries Jr. "He is an extraordinarily prolific scholar who combines wide-ranging interests with keen analytic discipline. He will make a wonderful addition to the Law School faculty."

Schauer is the author of numerous books, including "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 most recently, "Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes" (Belknap/Harvard, 2003). He also co-edited "The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings" (Oxford, 1996) and "The First Amendment: A Reader" (West, 1992, 1995), and is the author of more than 200 published articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning and the philosophy of law. He is currently George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University and a fellow of Balliol College.

-Kathleen A. Bergin