Kate Shaw

Before joining Cardozo as a Visiting Assistant Professor, Professor Shaw worked in the White House Counsel’s Office as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. Earlier in her career she clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

She graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude from Brown University and with a J.D. magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Northwestern University, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern University Law Review. Professor Shaw’s teaching and research interests include constitutional law; executive power and the separation of powers; federal courts; the Supreme Court; election law; and gender and sexual orientation and the law.