Shawn J. Bayern is an American law professor. Before his legal career, he created several widely used computer-software systems and wrote several widely cited books on computer programming.

Biography

After graduating from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, Bayern worked as a researcher at Yale University's Technology and Planning group, there developing the Central Authentication Service. As a student, he developed a reputation for becoming critical to the university's information systems and having full access to those systems. He was the reference-implementation lead for JSTL and sat on the specification committees that developed popular web languages including

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, and

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. At the age of 23, he wrote books on JSTL and JSP and gave award-winning speeches about Java, the Central Authentication Service, and other topics at industry conference such as

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, Java One, and WebDevShare. He is also the creator of Time Cave, a "message-scheduling service," and he offers a free research utility for federal laws on the iPhone and iPad called "US Code." After his computing career, Bayern went to Boalt Law at the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

. There he was editor-in-chief of the

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and first in his class at graduation. He then worked as a law clerk for

Harris Hartz Harris L Hartz (born January 20, 1947) is an American jurist and lawyer who serves as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Early life and education Hartz was born in 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in Far ...

of the

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. He has worked in the Office of the Solicitor General, on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, in the chambers of a United States District Judge in California, and at

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, a Washington law firm. Bayern is currently an assistant professor at

Florida State University College of Law Florida State University College of Law is the law school of Florida State University located in Tallahassee, Florida. The law school borders the southeast quadrant of the University's campus, near the Donald L. Tucker Center, an arena and part of ...

, and also has served as a visiting assistant professor of law at

Duke Law School Duke University School of Law (Duke Law School or Duke Law) is the law school of Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law is a constituent academic unit th ...

Books

*''JSTL in Action'' (Manning Press 2003) (). **Book Review: Java Bookshelf: Mark Cyzyk Reviews Shawn Bayern's ''JSTL in Action,'' ''Dr. Dobb's Journal'', DDJ Java Programming E-zine, June 2003

*''Web Development with JavaServer Pages'

(Manning Press 2002) (ISBN 193011012X).

Articles

* ''Explaining the American Norm Against Litigation'', 93 California Law Review 1697 (2006). * ''Minimal Backups'', Sys Admin, Apr. 2001. * ''Making a Wish: The Web-Interface Shell'', Sys Admin, Jul. 2000. * ''How to Crawl Back Inside Your Shell'', Sys Admin, Nov. 1999. * ''Securing Public Workstations'', Windows NT Magazine, Sept. 1999. * ''Automating Repetitive Tasks in NT'', Windows NT Magazine, May 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayern, Shawn Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer programmers Yale University alumni UC Berkeley School of Law alumni American legal scholars Duke University School of Law faculty Florida State University faculty