Theodore M. Shaw
Professor of Professional Practice in Law
| Office: |
435 W. 116th Street
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 643
New York NY 10027
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| Tel: |
212-854-7690 |
| Fax: |
212-854-7946 |
| Email: |
tshaw@law.columbia.edu |
Assistant Info
Courses
- Civil
procedure
- Constitutional
law
- Advanced
constitutional law
Education
- Wesleyan University, B.A., 1976, with honors
- Columbia Law School,
J.D., 1979, Charles Evans Hughes Scholar
Biography
Theodore M. Shaw, director-counsel
and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) from
2004-08, is one of the nation’s leading voices in civil rights. Shaw joined LDF
in 1982 and in 2004 became the fifth person to lead the organization. While at
LDF, he was lead counsel in a coalition that represented African-American and
Latino students in the University
of Michigan undergraduate
affirmative action admissions case. That case, Gratz v. Bollinger, went before the United States Supreme Court in
2003, along with Grutter v. Bollinger,
which challenged the use of affirmative action at The University of Michigan
Law School. Shaw worked as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice from 1979-82, where he litigated civil rights cases
at the trial and appellate levels and at the U.S. Supreme Court. He currently
serves on the Legal Advisory Network of the European Roma Rights Council based
in Budapest, Hungary. Shaw previously has taught
at Columbia, University
of Michigan, Temple and CUNY law schools. He is the
recipient of the Wien Prize for Social Responsibility from Columbia Law
School; the A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.,
Memorial Award from the National Bar Association Young Lawyers Division; and
the Baldwin Medal from the Wesleyan
University alumni body.
