Biography
Kate Shaw
What do you do? I'm currently a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Before joining Penn I spent over a decade on the faculty of Cardozo Law School, in New York City, and before that I worked in the Obama White House Counsel's Office and as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens and Judge Richard Posner. In addition to my position at Penn, I cohost the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny and am a contributing opinion writer with the New York Times.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? My time at Brown, including in what was then known as Gender Studies, has had an enormous impact on my work as a legal scholar and commentator. I've written widely on reproductive rights and justice, in both legal scholarship and the popular press; that work has covered the fall of Roe v. Wade, the future of medication abortion, abortion and democracy, pregnancy discrimination, and the Equal Rights Amendment, among other things. The podcast I cohost, with fellow law professors Leah Litman and Melissa Murray, also quite deliberately centers questions of sex and gender as we try to make the Supreme Court, its work, and the stakes of its decisions accessible to a wider audience.