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112 Va. L. Rev. Online 1 (2026)

handle is hein.journals/inbrf112 and id is 1 raw text is: COPYRIGHT © 2026 VIRGINIA LAw REVIEW ASSOCIATION VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW ONLINE VOLUME 112 APRIL 2026 1-3 FOREWORD Leslie Kendrick* I am delighted to introduce this special issue of the Virginia Law Review Online, which celebrates the life and work of my friend, mentor, and colleague, the late Fred Schauer. The essays that follow were written for a symposium entitled Rules and Reasons: A Conference for Fred Schauer, held here at the University of Virginia in September 2025 to honor Fred and mark the one-year anniversary of his passing, on September 1, 2024. As a result, this collection is something beyond a regular law review issue, or even a regular festschrift. It is a memorial, a tribute, and the product of a gathering of a worldwide community. The scholars who assembled in September 2025 were a very distinguished group, as you will see as you read some of their work. Nevertheless, the most important distinction they all shared was that Fred mattered to them, and they mattered to Fred. The conference, and these essays, were created in Fred's memory, but they also attest to his enormous impact and his enduring legacy across multiple areas of the law. To give a small sense of that legacy, let me describe Fred by the numbers. Fred wrote more than 300 works, including 14 books, which he authored, edited, or co-edited. (And here, I must digress for a moment. When preparing the program for the conference, the Law School communications director wanted to include a full chronological list of Fred's works. When she asked ChatGPT to produce such a list, it kept returning answers such as, This is going to be a really long list. Are you * Dean and Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law. 1