Shawn J. Bayern | College of Law

Shawn J. Bayern

Larry and Joyce Beltz Professor of Torts and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Florida State University
College of Law
Advocacy Center, Room A202B
Phone: 850.644.8308
sbayern@law.fsu.edu

Education

J.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
B.S., Yale University, 1999

Professor Bayern's research focuses on common-law issues, primarily in contracts, torts and organizational law. He has recently written articles criticizing formalism and economic simplifications of the law. He teaches Torts, Contracts, Agency & Partnership and other related courses.

Before joining Florida State Law, Professor Bayern was a visiting assistant professor at Duke Law School. He has also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Harris Hartz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, for the Office of the Solicitor General, and at the appellate staff of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. As a law student, he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review and recipient of the Thelen Marrin Prize for Academic Achievement, given annually at graduation to the student with the strongest academic record. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves as an adviser to the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Concluding Provisions.

Before his legal career, Professor Bayern worked in computing research, served on groups responsible for developing programming languages, and wrote several books and articles about computer programming. He also created the Central Authentication Service (CAS), a framework for computer security that has been adopted by many universities, including Florida State.

Select Recent and Forthcoming Publications

A Research Agenda for Organizational Law (Edward Elgar) (forthcoming 2024)

Principles and Possibilities in Common Law (West Academic) (forthcoming 2023)

The Analytical Failures of Law and Economics (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming 2023)

Autonomous Organizations (Cambridge University Press 2021)

Gilbert Law Summaries on Contracts (with Melvin A. Eisenberg) (15th ed., West Academic 2020)

Closely Held Organizations (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press 2020)

Reverse Engineering (by) Artificial Intelligence, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar) (forthcoming 2022)

Introduction to Contract Law, in Laws of Medicine: Core Legal Aspects for the Healthcare Professional (Springer) (forthcoming 2022)

Intelligent Remedies, in The Cambridge Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and The Law (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming 2022)

Agreements, Algorithms, and Agency, in The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms (Woody Barfield, editor) (Cambridge University Press 2020)

Implied Organizations and Technological Governance, 64 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2023)

Adventures with an Artificially Intelligent Language Model (and What It Might Say About the Law), 25 Green Bag 2d __ (forthcoming 2022)

Business Law Beyond Business, 46 J. Corp L. 521 (2021)

Are Autonomous Entities Possible?, 114 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 23 (2019)