Amanda Shanor is an Associate Professor and Wolpow Family Faculty Scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who teaches and writes about constitutional law, particularly the freedom of speech. Shanor’s research explores the changing meaning of the First Amendment and the forces that affect it; democratic theory, illiberalism, and equality, and the intersection of constitutional law and economic life. Prior to joining the academy, Shanor was a practicing lawyer in the National Legal Department of the American Civil Liberties Union who worked on the organization’s Supreme Court litigation and national strategy, including Masterpiece Cakeshop. Shanor previously litigated constitutional and national security cases, including Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder.

Shanor’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, among others. Shanor is a regular contributor to legal blogs, including SCOTUSBlog, and teaches first-year constitutional law at Penn Law. While an academic, Shanor has continued to litigate, file amicus briefs, and advise and moot advocates on speech, equality, separation of powers, and other constitutional issues.

Shanor is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College and holds a PhD in law from Yale University, and served as a law clerk to Judges Cornelia T.L. Pillard and Judith W. Rogers on the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Robert W. Sweet in the Southern District of New York.