Associate Professor at the University of Navarra School of Law in Pamplona, Spain
Mr. Shuler graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Science and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota School of Law cum laude in 2003. Thereafter he was admitted to the bar in the state of Illinois as well as the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Shuler was based in Chicago, Illinois, litigating commercial insurance coverage and direct defense cases primarily in the commercial insurance context in over twenty federal and state jurisdictions nationwide. In the fall of 2007 he joined the faculty in the School of Law at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, where he teaches Introduction to Anglo-American Law and American Constitutional Law. Mr. Shuler also researches and lectures in areas such as American Government and Politics and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Comparative Law while serving as an Analyst for the Gertrude Ryan Law Observatory.
PUBLICACIONES
Killing is expensive
The recession in the United States is suggesting that its fiscal sensibilities are stronger than its appetite for retribution, threatening America’s...
Right to bear arms, and use them…upheld
After a 70-year hiatus, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued its first of likely many decisions regarding the right to bear arms pursuant to the 2nd Amendment. However, if an arm may be kept might not be as difficult and important as determining when it may be used.
Thou shalt die sober
Federal blackmail precipitated by puritanical overreaction led to yet another example of a lack of proportionality in American law.
Be careful where you spit
The interpretation of the 4th Amendment's guarantee to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures is particularly difficult in the DNA Age in which citizens...
Constitutional liar
The 1st Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, preferred or odious, is being tested next month in a Federal District Court in one of the United States of America's most sensitive contexts: military sacrifice.
The United States of incarcerated
The United States Supreme Court recently gave federal judges more discretion in issuing prison sentences but it is unlikely to affect the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Torture’s future
The definition and application of torture has been contentiously debated around the world during the Bush Administration's War on Terror. The issue is unlikely to be resolved before Mr. Bush's impending exit but the stances of the most viable candidates for the upcoming presidential election in the United States suggest that the next executive will take a different approach.