Theodore Shaw
Lecturer-in-Law
On August 27, 2003, Columbia Law School honored Theodore M. Shaw '79, Associate Director-Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, with the 2003 Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social Responsibility. The annual ceremony offers recognition to those individuals and organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to pro bono activities and community service.
Since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1979, Mr. Shaw's career has spanned from working in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington D.C., to academia to his current position at the NAACP. During his career he has litigated cases on the death penalty, school desegregation, capital punishment, and other civil rights matters. Most recently, he was lead counsel representing African-American and Latino student interveners in the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action case.
