Frederick Schauer, a leading figure in constitutional law (esp. the First Amendment) and legal theory, who has been Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School at Harvard University since 1990, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at the University of Virginia. That is a really quite major hiring coup for UVA, which has taken something of a beating in recent years in terms of faculty losses.
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