Virginia
Frederick Schauer, scholar who scrutinized free speech, dies at 78
Frederick Schauer, a prominent legal philosopher who challenged prevailing views about freedom of speech, restrictions on obscenity and the ethics of racial profiling, died Sept. 1 at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 78.
In more than a dozen books and several hundred articles, Mr. 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 comm... [6145 chars]