Shawn Bayern

Florida State University - College of Law

Larry and Joyce Beltz Professor of Torts

425 W. Jefferson Street

Tallahassee, FL 32306

United States

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Scholarly Papers (26)

1.

Offer and Acceptance in Modern Contract Law: A Needless Concept

California Law Review, Vol. 103 (Forthcoming), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 625
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2014
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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contracts, contract law, offer, acceptance, formation, offer and acceptance, conceptualism, formalism

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Micro-Symposium on Orin Kerr's 'A Theory of Law'

Green Bag 2d, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2013, pp. 213-226, Journal of Law: A Periodical Laboratory of Legal Scholarship, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012, pp. 487-502, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 13-05, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 13-105
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Willamette University College of Law, Florida State University - College of Law, Yale University - Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, St. John’s University - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, University of Chicago - Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Harry M. Walborsky Professor, Florida State University College of Law; Associate Dean, Business Program, Stanford Law School, McGill University - Department of Political Science, Suffolk University Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Marquette University - Law School, Independent, Notre Dame Law School, Northeastern University - School of Law, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Berger & Montague, P .C. and Saint Louis University - School of Law
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apps, authority, Case Western Reserve, cheap talk, citation, dialectic, doctrinal, editing, empirics, equilibrium, falsity, Felix Frankfurter, Folk Theorem, footnotes, fraud, Harvard, Lexis, narcissism, peer review, practice, recursion, second-best, solipsism, truth, Westlaw

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The Limits of Formal Economics in Tort Law: The Puzzle of Negligence

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 707, 2010, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 346, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-05
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2013
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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tort, negligence, law and economics, injurer, victim, bilateral precaution, activity levels

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The Implications of Modern Business-Entity Law for the Regulation of Autonomous Systems

19 Stanford Technology Law Review 93 (2015), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 797, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 797
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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autonomous systems, robots, artificial intelligence, business law, organizational law, LLCs, limited liability companies, shelf LLCs, zero-member LLCs, legal personhood, legal personality, personhood

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Company Law and Autonomous Systems: A Blueprint for Lawyers, Entrepreneurs, and Regulators

9 Hastings Science and Technology Law Journal 2 (Summer 2017) 135-162
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2018
Florida State University - College of Law, University of St. Gallen, University of Cambridge - Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of St. Gallen Law School, Munich Center on Governance (MCG)Universität Marburg (Institut für Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht) and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Company Law, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, Ethics, Legal Personhood, Technology

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Of Bitcoins, Independently Wealthy Software, and the Zero-Member LLC

108 Nw. U.L. Rev. 1485 (2014); 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 257 (2014), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 675
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2016
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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bitcoin, llc, autonomous, software, cryptography, limited liability company, organization, legal personality, cryptocurrency

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Rational Ignorance, Rational Closed-Mindedness, and Modern Economic Formalism in Contract Law

California Law Review, Vol. 97, p. 943, 2009, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 345, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-04
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2009
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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contracts, interpretation, formalism, rational ignorance, law and economics

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Case Interpretation

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 125, 2009, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 347, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-06
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2009
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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interpretation, precedent, facts, holdings, dicta

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Dynamic Common Law and Technological Change: The Classification of Bitcoin

71 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 22 (2014), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 728
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Jan 2015
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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bitcoin, common law, private law theory, formalism

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Against Certainty

41 Hofstra Law Review 53 (2012), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 624
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 06 May 2014
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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certainty, formalism, predictability, precedent, reliance, uncertainty, legal theory, common law

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Are Autonomous Entities Possible?

114 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 23 (2019)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Jun 2019
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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autonomous systems, robots, artificial intelligence, business law, organizational law, LLCs, limited liability companies, shelf LLCs, zero-member LLCs, legal personhood, legal personality, personhood

12.

Contract Meta-Interpretation

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 49, p. 1097, 2016, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 785, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 16-3
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2016
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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contract, interpretation

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False Efficiency and Missed Opportunities in Law and Economics

86 Tulane Law Review 135 (2011)., FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 611
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 30 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2013
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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law, economics, law and economics, alternatives, opportunity costs, negligence, unconscionability

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An Unintended Consequence of Reducing the Corporate Tax Rate

Tax Notes, Vol. 157, No. 8, 2017, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 869, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 1-18
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 21 Dec 2017
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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tax, tax planning, tax reform, loopholes

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Three Problems (and Two Solutions) in the Law of Partnership Formation

49 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 605 (2016), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 801, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 16-10
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2016
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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partnership formation, partnership, general partnership, vicarious liability

16.

The Expectation Measure and Its Discontents

2013 Michigan State Law Review 1, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 680, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Mar 2014
Shawn Bayern and Melvin A. Eisenberg
Florida State University - College of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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contracts, contract law, remedies, expectation damages, efficiency, indifference principle, administrability

17.

The Significance of Private Burdens and Lost Benefits for a Fair-Play Analysis of Punishment

New Criminal Law Review, Vol. 12, p. 1, 2009, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 348
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2009
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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fair play, criminal theory, punishment, benefits, burdens, time

18.

Morality and Expectations

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 349, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-08
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2010
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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tort, negligence, morality, expectations, reasonableness, Scanlon, contractualism

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The Limits of Bargaining Power as an Interpretive Aid

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 381, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-21
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2009
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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contracts, interpretation, gaps, bargaining power

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Explaining the American Norm against Litigation

California Law Review, Vol. 93, p. 1697, 2005, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 350, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-09
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2009
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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law and social norms, litigation, justice, efficiency, mercy, courts

21.

The Limitations of Economic Reasoning in Analyzing Duress

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 99, p. 141, 2015, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 784, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 16-1
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Jan 2016
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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duress, economics, contract law

22.

Business Law Beyond Business

46 Journal of Corporation Law (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Apr 2021
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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LLC, business law, legal entity, legal personhood

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A Formal System for Analyzing Conveyances of Property Under the Common Law

FRONTIERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS: LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, R.G.F. Winkels, ed., 2010, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 30 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2013
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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property, artificial intelligence, conveyance, interpreter, grant, transfer, syntax

24.

The Possibilities of Modern Legal Organizations

Shawn Bayern, A Research Agenda for Organizational Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024), chapter 3., FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2025
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law
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LLCs, Modern Legal Organizations, Legal Transactions, Legal Personhood, Property Law, Contract Law

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Piercing the Corporate Eyebrow: Shareholder Values in Corporate Governance

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 351, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-10
Posted: 27 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2009
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law

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corporations, shareholder voting, managerial power, dodge v. ford, finra

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Inoperable Rules: Difficulties with the Abstract Analysis of Law

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 352, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-11
Posted: 26 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2009
Shawn Bayern
Florida State University - College of Law

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law and economics, social science, formal analysis, administrability, operability