Faculty & Staff
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Shani M. King Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Center on Children and Families P.O. Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7625 e-mail: kings@law.ufl.edu 352-273-0951 / Fax: 352-392-3005 |
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Biography
Shani King is an assistant professor of law. He received his BA from Brown University and his JD from Harvard Law School. Following law school, he was a Harvard Sheldon Knox Traveling Fellow with EDUCA, a not-for-profit organization in the Dominican Republic that was conducting an analysis of a major educational reform effort. After serving as a public interest fellow, he practiced securities litigation and white-collar criminal defense at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York and then at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg in New York City. Just prior to joining the faculty at the College of Law, he practiced law at Legal Services for Children, Inc. in San Francisco, California, where he litigated cases under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and represented children in immigration, dependency, guardianship and school discipline proceedings. He is currently the Co-Director of the law school’s Center on Children and Families and has lectured nationally and internationally on children’s rights. His research and teaching interests include international human rights, family law, education law, children’s rights, immigration, and the interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and citizenship status in various legal contexts. Much of his work is interdisciplinary. A common theme throughout his scholarly interests is the rights of children, especially those from traditionally underserved populations, and the public responsibility to protect those rights. His past and forthcoming publications appear in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and the Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy.