Shawn J. Bayern is an American law professor. Before his legal career, he created several widely used computer-software systems and wrote several widely cited books on computer programming.

Biography

After graduating from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

, Bayern worked as a researcher at Yale University's Technology and Planning group, there developing the

Central Authentication Service Central Authentication Service (CAS) is a single sign-on protocol for the web. Its purpose is to permit a user to access multiple applications while providing their credentials (such as user ID and password) only once. It also allows web applica ...

. As a student, he developed a reputation for becoming critical to the university's information systems and having full access to those systems. He was the reference-implementation lead for JSTL and sat on the specification committees that developed popular languages including

JavaServer Pages Jakarta Server Pages (JSP; formerly JavaServer Pages) is a collection of technologies that helps software developers create dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, SOAP, or other document types. Released in 1999 by Sun Microsystems, J ...

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, and

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. He wrote early books on JSTL and JSP. He is also the creator of Time Cave, a "message-scheduling service," and in the early 2000s of a machine-learning system for playing rock-paper-scissors against human opponents. After his computing career, Bayern went to

Berkeley Law The University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was never the official name. This cam ...

. There, he was editor-in-chief of the

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and first in his class at graduation. He then worked as a law clerk for

Harris Hartz Harris L Hartz (born January 20, 1947) is an American jurist and lawyer who serves as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Early life and education Hartz was born in 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in Farm ...

of the

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. He has also worked in the Office of the

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, on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, in the chambers of a United States District Judge in California, and at

Covington & Burling Covington & Burling LLP is an American multinational law firm. Known as a white-shoe law firm, it is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and advises clients on transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters. The firm has addition ...

, a Washington law firm. In 2017, he was elected to the American Law Institute and serves as advisor to several Restatement projects. Bayern is currently the Larry and Joyce Beltz Professor at

Florida State University College of Law The Florida State University College of Law is the law school of Florida State University located in Tallahassee, Florida. It is currently the highest ranked law school in Florida and is ranked in the top 40 best law schools in the United States. ...

and also has served as a visiting professor of law at

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, and Berkeley Law. His books have critiqued law and economics, and he is known for developing new theories for

Algorithmic entities Algorithmic entities refer to autonomous algorithms that operate without human control or interference. Recently, attention is being given to the idea of algorithmic entities being granted (partial or full) legal personhood. Professor Shawn Bayern ...

Books

*''JSTL in Action'' (Manning Press 2003) (). **Book Review: Java Bookshelf: Mark Cyzyk Reviews Shawn Bayern's ''JSTL in Action,'' ''Dr. Dobb's Journal'', DDJ Java Programming E-zine, June 2003

*''Web Development with JavaServer Pages'

(Manning Press 2002) (ISBN 193011012X).

Articles

* ''Explaining the American Norm Against Litigation'', 93 California Law Review 1697 (2006). * ''Minimal Backups'', Sys Admin, Apr. 2001. * ''Making a Wish: The Web-Interface Shell'', Sys Admin, Jul. 2000. * ''How to Crawl Back Inside Your Shell'', Sys Admin, Nov. 1999. * ''Securing Public Workstations'', Windows NT Magazine, Sept. 1999. * ''Automating Repetitive Tasks in NT'', Windows NT Magazine, May 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayern, Shawn Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer programmers Yale University alumni UC Berkeley School of Law alumni American legal scholars Florida State University faculty Members of the American Law Institute AI legal scholars