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Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
B.A., Sociology & International Relations, University of Southern California

Biography

Emma Shakeshaft is a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her teaching and scholarship focus on civil procedure, criminal procedure, civil rights, law and society, and poverty law. Shakeshaft’s recent article, Injustice by Design: Municipal Court Adjudication in the Absence of Defendants and Prosecutors, is forthcoming in the Gonzaga Law Review.

Shakeshaft’s research is informed by her experience as a Senior Staff Attorney and Researcher at the ACLU of Wisconsin, where her work focused primarily on the criminal legal system. Her practice areas included policing, poverty-based sanctions, and the constitutional rights of incarcerated people.

Earlier in her career, Shakeshaft was a postdoctoral fellow at the Newcomb College Institute at Tulane University and a doctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.

Shakeshaft received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a B.A. in Sociology and International Relations from the University of Southern California.