Shawn Bayern

Shawn Bayern is an assistant professor at the Florida State University College of Law. He has taught at Duke and Berkeley.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in May 2006. There, he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review and received the Thelen Marrin Prize for Academic Achievement, given annually at graduation to the student with the strongest academic record.

Before his legal career, Professor Bayern worked in computing research. He developed the Central Authentication Service, a software framework for computer security that has been adopted by many universities. He also served on "expert groups" responsible for developing programming languages like JSP and JSTL, and he wrote several books and articles related to computer programming.

Professor Bayern's research focuses on common-law issues, primarily in contracts, torts, and corporate law. He has recently written articles criticizing formalism and economic simplifications of the law.