Professor Shapiro earned a B.A. with general and special honors in English from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from the University of Chicago Harris Graduate School of Public Policy and a J.D. (high honors) from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduation, Professor Shapiro was a law clerk for Chief Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to coming to Chicago-Kent in 2003, she worked as an associate with Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where she handled plaintiff civil rights cases, and as a Skadden Fellow with the National Center on Poverty Law. Professor Shapiro's scholarly interests include federal courts and labor and employment law. She teaches professional responsibility, employment law, and legislative process.
Articles
Oral Dissenting on the Supreme Court (with Christopher Schmidt), William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2010)
The Context of Ideology: Law, Politics, and Empirical Legal Scholarship (2010), Missouri Law Review (2010)
Coding Complexity: Bringing Law to the Empirical Analysis of the Supreme Court, Hastings Law Journal (2009)
The Law Clerk Proxy Wars: Secrecy, Accountability, and Ideology in the Supreme Court (2009) (reviewing Peppers, Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (2006) and A. Ward & D. Weiden, Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court, Florida State University Law Review (2009)
The Limits of the Olympian Court: Common Law Judging versus Error Correction in the Supreme Court, Washington & Lee Law Review (2006)
Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has struggled to control its caseload and to avoid...
Contributions to Books
McDonnell-Douglas After 30 in the Supreme Court and Appellate Courts, 2007 Employment Law Update (2007)