Schlag, Pierre | CU Experts

Research

research overview

Professor Schlag's research covers a multitude of fields including constitutional interpretation, jurisprudence, legal theory, the aesthetics of law, legal reasoning, and law and economics. Animating most of his research and writing is an abiding interest in identifying what law is, what it does and articulating in cogent terms how it performs its various tasks.

keywords

Jurisprudence, legal philosophy, law and economics, interdisciplinary studies, jurisprudence, legal philosophy, legal history

Publications

selected publications

book
- Laying Down the Law Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind 1998
- The enchantment of reason 1998
- Against the law 1996
- Tactics of legal reasoning 1986
chapter
- Textualist and Purposive Interpretation 2018
- Knowledge Bubble 2017
- l'autonomie des Avocats 2015
- law and philosophy in the hyppereal 2009
- critical legal studies 2008
- rights in the postmodern condition 1996
journal article
- How to do things with hohfeld. Law and Contemporary Problems : a Quarterly Published by the Duke University, School of Law. 2015
- creativity in constitutional interpretation 2014
- coase minus the coase theorem. Iowa Law Review. 2013
- Four Conceptualizations Of The Relations Of Law To Economics (Tribulations Of A Positivist Social Science).. Cardozo Law Review. 2357-2371. 2012
- the faculty workshop. Buffalo Law Review. 2012
- kandinsky or Hart 2011
- nudge, choice architecture. Michigan Law Review. 2010
- Formalism and Realism in Ruins (Mapping the Logics of Collapse). Iowa Law Review. 195-244. 2009
- Spam Jurisprudence, Air Law, and the Rank Anxiety of Nothing Happening (A Report on the State of the Art). Georgetown Law Journal. 803-835. 2009
- The dedifferentiation problem. Continental Philosophy Review. 35-62. 2009
- The Anxiety of the Law Student at the Socratic Impasse-An Essay on Reductionism in Legal Education.. New York University Review of Law and Social Change. 575-584. 2007
- A Brief Survey of Deconstruction.. Cardozo Law Review. 741-752. 2005
- My Dinner at Langdell's.. Buffalo Law Review. 851-863. 2004
- A Reply-—The Missing Portion.. University of Miami Law Review. 1029-1039. 2003
- Ten Thousand Cases Maybe More 2003
- The aesthetics of American law.. Harvard Law Review. 1047-1118. 2002
- Politics and denial.. Cardozo Law Review. 1135-1145. 2001
- No vehicles in the park.. Seattle University Law Review. 381-389. 1999
- u.s. c.l.s.. Law and Critique. 1999
- Authorizing interpretation.. Connecticut Law Review. 1065-1090. 1998
- The empty circles of liberal justification.. Michigan Law Review. 1-46. 1997
- Law as the continuation of God by other means.. California Law Review. 427-440. 1997
- Law and phrenology.. Harvard Law Review. 877-921. 1997
- Hiding the ball.. New York University Law Review. 1681-1718. 1996
- This could be your culture—junk speech in a time of decadence.. Harvard Law Review. 1801-1820. 1996
- Anti-intellectualism.. Cardozo Law Review. 1111-1120. 1995
- values. Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. 1994
- Clerks in the maze.. Michigan Law Review. 2053-2074. 1993
- How to do things with the First Amendment.. University of Colorado Law Review. 1095-1107. 1993
- Pre-figuration and evaluation.. California Law Review. 965-977. 1992
- Writing for judges.. University of Colorado Law Review. 419-423. 1992
- The problem of the subject.. Texas Law Review. 1627-1743. 1991
- Normativity and the politics of form.. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 801-932. 1991
- Stances.. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 1059-1062. 1991
- Foreword: postmodernism and law.. University of Colorado Law Review. 439-453. 1991
- Normative and nowhere to go.. Stanford Law Review. 167-191. 1990
- “Le hors de texte, c'est moi” the politics of form and the domestication of deconstruction.. Cardozo Law Review. 1631-1674. 1990
- The problem of transaction costs.. Southern California Law Review. 1661-1700. 1989
- Missing pieces: a cognitive approach to law.. Texas Law Review. 1195-1250. 1989
- Cannibal moves: an essay on the metamorphoses of the legal distinction.. Stanford Law Review. 929-972. 1988
- Fish v. Zapp: the case of the relatively autonomous self.. Georgetown Law Journal. 37-52. 1987
- Theory and the uses of Dennis Martinez.. Georgetown Law Journal. 53-58. 1987
- The brilliant, the curious, and the wrong.. Stanford Law Review. 917-927. 1987
- An appreciative comment on Coase's The problem of social cost: a view from the left.. Wisconsin Law Review. 919-962. 1986
- Rules and standards.. Ucla Law Review. 379-430. 1985
- Framers intent: the illegitimate uses of history.. University of Puget Sound law review. University of Puget Sound. School of Law. 283-330. 1985
- An attack on categorical approaches to freedom of speech.. Ucla Law Review. 671-739. 1983
- Assaults on the exclusionary rule: good faith limitations and damage remedies.. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 875-915. 1982
- A theoretical analysis of knowhow licensing under EEC competition law: territorial restrictions.. Antitrust Bulletin. 347-445. 1981

Teaching

courses taught

LAWS 7128 Jurisprudence (Spring 2019)
LAWS 5425 Torts (Fall 2018)
LAWS 8015 Seminar: Constitutional Theory (Fall 2018)
LAWS 8110 Fascism and the Liberal State (Spring 2018)
LAWS 8128 Jurisprudence (Spring 2018)

Background

education and training

J.D., University of California-Los Angeles 1978
B.A., Yale University 1975

awards and honors

Distinguished Professorship (University of Colorado President), conferred by University of Colorado President, 2012

CU Experts

Schlag, Pierre Distinguished Professor and the Byron R. White Professor of Constitutional Law

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Research

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Publications

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Teaching

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