Frederick Schauer
Frederick Schauer is Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and Academic Dean. He writes about the philosophical groundings, legal contours and practical implications of constitutionalism, often focusing on issues of freedom of speech and press. He also teaches and writes about the relationship between law, ethics and policymaking, with a particular preoccupation with the making, enforcement and nature of rules. Schauer holds an AB and MBA from Dartmouth and a JD from Harvard. Before coming to the Kennedy School he was professor of law at the University of Michigan. A former chair of the Section on Constitutional Law of the Association of American Law Schools and currently Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, he is editor of the journal Legal Theory, and author of The Law of Obscenity; Free Speech: A Philosophical Inquiry; Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life; The Philosophy of Law;and numerous articles on freedom of speech, constitutional theory and the philosophy of law. A confirmed dilettante, Schauer pursues with limited success skiing, scuba diving, woodworking, bicycling, French cooking, golf and building ship models.