Hastie Fellow
E-mail: shbaker@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)263-4406
Office: Room 6216, Law School
Biography
Shalanda Baker received her B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. She served as an Air Force officer prior to her honorable discharge under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, and has since advocated for repeal of the policy.
During law school, Ms. Baker was awarded a Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Policy Fellowship. She also served as President of the Black Law Students Association and a member of the Queer Caucus. She received the Massachusetts Black Judges Award for her law school achievements.
In addition, in law school Ms. Baker worked as a legal extern to federal district court judge Martin Jenkins in the Northern District of California and a summer associate in the Boston office of Bingham McCutchen LLP. She also served homeless and low-income GLBTQ youth as an intern at the Peter Cicchino Youth Project of the Urban Justice Center in New York.
Following her graduation, Ms. Baker clerked for Justice Roderick Ireland of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She also worked as a corporate and project finance associate for Bingham McCutchen LLP, initially in Boston and later in Japan.
Ms. Baker's research interests include economic development, commercial finance, and the intersection of international development, privatization, and finance in the Global South. Her teaching interests include contracts, business organizations, bankruptcy, and commercial law.
