Richard H. McAdams & Frederick Schauer - Author's Responses/Conclusion

How Law Works: Perspectives from Economics, Psychology, Political Science, and Philosophy

A Conference on Richard McAdams’ The Expressive Powers of Law and Frederick Schauer’s The Force of Law

Richard H. McAdams is the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law. He writes on criminal law and procedure, social norms, inequality, and law and literature. He is the author of The Expressive Powers of Law (Harvard 2015) and co-editor of Fairness in Law and Economics (Edward Elgar 2013). He has served as a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Law & Social Sciences, the editorial board of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association. He is currently co-editing a manuscript, Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature, for Oxford University Press.

Frederick Schauer is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. From 1990 to 2008 he was Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Schauer 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), Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Harvard, 2003), Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard, 2009), and, most recently, The Force of Law (Harvard, 2015).

Recorded October 9, 2015, at the University of Chicago Law School.