Shawn Bayern

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, Bayern worked as a research programmer at Yale University's Technology and Planning group, [cite web | title=Technology & Planning Organizational Website | url=http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/TP/Home
accessdate=July 29 | accessyear=2007] there developing the Central Authentication Service in "one week using a text editor." [cite web | title=Authentication and Single Sign-on Using Java Technologies, Sun Products & Solutions | url=http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/success/pdf/yale_university.pdf
accessdate=July 29 | accessyear=2007] As a student he had developed a reputation for becoming critical to the university's information systems and having full access to those systems. [cite web | title=Master of his Domain, Rumpus Magazine
url=http://www.yale.edu/rumpus/archives/pdf/rumpus_99nov.pdf
accessdate=July 29| accessyear=2007] As a researcher he was also the reference-implementation lead for JSTL [cite web | title=JSTL Specification
url=http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr052/
accessdate=July 29 | accessyear=2007] and sat on the specification committees that developed popular web languages including JavaServer Pages, [cite web | title=JSP Specification
url=http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr152/
accessdate=July 29| accessyear=2007]
JAX-RPC, [cite web | title=JAX-RPC Specification
url=http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr101/
accessdate=July 29| accessyear=2007] and JavaServer Faces. [cite web | title=JavaServer Faces Specification
url=http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr127/
accessdate=July 29| accessyear=2007] He wrote books on JSTL and JSP. [No Eclipse of Sun's Product, Business Line, March 31, 2004.] [M2 Presswire, Manning Publications, October 31, 2001.] He gave award-winning [cite web | title=WebDevShare Prestige Award Announcement
url=http://web.archive.org/web/20031227084531/webdev.indiana.edu/2002/award.html
accessdate=July 29| accessyear=2007] speeches about Java, the Central Authentication Service, and other topics at industry conference such as Macworld Conference & Expo, Java One, and WebDevShare.

After his computing career, Bayern went to law school at the University of California at Berkeley. There he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review (ISSN 00081221) [cite web | title=California Law Review 2005-06 Masthead | url=http://clr.boalt.org/mast05_06.php
accessdate=July 29| accessyear=2007] and first in his class at graduation. [cite web | title=Dean Stands in for Dean at Commencement, UC Berkeley Press Release
url=http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/2006/commencement051606.html
accessdate=July 29| accessyear=2007] He then worked as a law clerk for Harris Hartz of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.cite web | title=Shawn Bayern Faculty Biography, Duke University | url=http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/bayern] 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 Covington & Burling, a Washington law firm.

Bayern is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

Books

*"JSTL in Action" [http://www.manning.com/bayern] (Manning Press 2003) (ISBN 1930110529).
*"Web Development with JavaServer Pages" [http://www.manning.com/fields] [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=10434582837967261781] (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.

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