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Citations
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World Ranking
190
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Frederick Schauer was affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily spanned the social sciences, with a strong focus on law and its intersections with political science, philosophy, economics, and artificial intelligence. Schauer's work also delved into judicial and constitutional studies, political philosophy and ethics, and the cultural aspects of law. The body of research consisted of 36 publications within social sciences, including 26 in law and 9 in political science and international relations, along with 5 in economics and econometrics.

Schauer's research addressed a range of topics, with particular emphasis on:

  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Law in Society and Culture
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Freedom of Expression and Defamation

Among frequently published venues were the SSRN Electronic Journal, where Schauer contributed to three publications, as well as the Social Philosophy and Policy, The Supreme Court Review, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu, each hosting one of their works.

Selected recent papers include:

  • FREEDOM OF THOUGHT? (2020), Social Philosophy and Policy
  • Does Law Matter? (2021), Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu
  • Legal realism and legal reality (2022), Jurisprudence
  • Disestablishing the Establishment Clause (2023), The Supreme Court Review
  • Refining the Lawmaking Function of the Supreme Court (2025), University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Frequent coauthors throughout Schauer's career included John Tasioulas, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Torben Spaak, Ted M. Sichelman, and Nicoletta Bersier.

Their published books were released primarily through notable academic presses. Cambridge University Press published three titles: "The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism" (2021), "The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law" (2020), and "Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later" (2022). Additionally, two books titled "The Proof" appeared via Harvard University Press in 2022, and a single publication, "Common Law - Civil Law" (2022), was published by Springer Nature in the Netherlands.

In recognition of their academic contributions, Schauer was awarded fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life

    Frederick F. Schauer

  • On Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation

    Larry Alexander;Frederick Schauer

  • Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry

    Frederick F. Schauer

  • Fear, Risk and the First Amendment: Unraveling the Chilling Effect

    Frederick Schauer

  • Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning

    Frederick F. Schauer

  • Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes

    Frederick F. Schauer

  • Categories and the First Amendment: A Play in Three Acts

    Frederick Schauer

  • The force of law

    Frederick F. Schauer

  • Do Cases Make Bad Law

    Frederick Schauer

  • Speech and Speech - Obscenity and Obscenity: An Exercise in the Interpretation of Constitutional Language

    Frederick Schauer

  • Statutory Construction and the Coordinating Function of Plain Meaning

    Frederick Schauer

  • Thinking Like a Lawyer

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  • Democracy and the Mass Media

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  • European and US Constitutionalism

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  • Neuroscience, lie-detection, and the law: Contrary to the prevailing view, the suitability of brain-based lie-detection for courtroom or forensic use should be determined according to legal and not scientific standards

    Frederick Schauer

  • Playing by the Rules

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  • The Limited Domain of the Law

    Frederick Schauer

  • Was Austin Right After All? On the Role of Sanctions in a Theory of Law

    Frederick Schauer

  • The Social Construction of the Concept of Law: A Reply to Julie Dickson

    Frederick Schauer

  • A Critical Guide to Vehicles in the Park

    Frederick Schauer

  • Is the Common Law Law

    Frederick Schauer;Melvin A. Eisenberg

  • The Politics and Incentives of Legal Transplantation

    Frederick Schauer

  • Transparency in Three Dimensions

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  • On the Degree of Confidence for Adverse Decisions

    Frederick Schauer;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Incentives, Reputation, and the Inglorious Determinants of Judicial Behavior

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  • On the Supposed Jury-Dependence of Evidence Law

    Frederick Schauer

  • Judicial Supremacy and the Modest Constitution

    Frederick Schauer

  • Formalism: Legal, Constitutional, Judicial

    Frederick Schauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman Yale University
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin New York University
Mark Tushnet
Mark Tushnet Harvard University

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