Michael S. Rosenwald
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Frederick Schauer, a prominent legal philosopher who challenged prevailing views about freedom of speech, restrictions on obscenity and the ethics of racial profiling, died on Sept. 1 at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 78.
The cause was end stage renal disease, said his wife, Barbara Spellman.
In more than a dozen books and several hundred articles, Professor Schauer devoted himself to “questioning the unquestionable or thinking the unthinkable,” as he once put it, no matter the subject — whether it be the sanctity of the First Amendment or...
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