Theodore Shaw

Theodore M. Shaw is a professor of professional practice in law at Columbia Law School and of counsel to Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. Previously, he was director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, for which he worked in various capacities over the span of twenty-six years. His legal career began as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, and he has since litigated education, employment, voting rights, housing, police misconduct, capital punishment, and other civil rights cases in trial and appellate courts and in the U.S. Supreme Court. While a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, he played a key role in initiating a review of the school’s admissions practices and policies and served on the faculty committee that promulgated the admissions program upheld by the U.S . Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003).