Kate Shaw: Chautauqua Institution Lecture Series
Route 394, Chautauqua, NY 14722
Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. A constitutional law scholar, her academic work and writing focus on executive power, the law of democracy, administrative law and legislation, the Supreme Court, and reproductive rights and justice. Shaw brings her extensive expertise on the American Constitution to close out Week One of the Chautauqua Lecture Series.
Her scholarly writing has appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Northwestern University Law Review, and her popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Time and The Atlantic. Shaw is a contributor with ABC News, a contributing opinion writer with The New York Times, co-host of the Supreme Court podcast “Strict Scrutiny,” and a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Before joining the Penn faculty in January 2024, she spent over a decade on the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was also co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Earlier in her career she served as an associate counsel in the Obama White House Counsel’s Office and served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and the Honorable Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Shaw received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, and her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University.