Professor Frederick Schauer (USA) is Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he served as Academic Dean from 1997 to 2002 and as the School’s Acting Dean in the spring of 2001.
His extensive expertise lies in the area of the philosophy of law, legal reasoning, the theory of rights, freedom of speech, and constitutional law. Professor Schauer has written many significant books on these issues as well as more than 150 articles in various legal and philosophical journals.
He has been Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Constitutional Law and Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Professor Schauer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In addition to appearing before many congressional committees on issues of freedom of speech and constitutional law, he has lectured on legal theory and constitutional law in various countries.