Shanée Brown

Shanée Brown joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the spring of 2024 as an emerging scholar.

Before coming to the School of Law, Brown served for six years as a staff attorney at The Bronx Defenders in New York where she managed a high-volume caseload, representing indigent parents in abuse and neglect proceedings in the Bronx County Family Court. Previously, she worked as a fellow and staff attorney at the Safe Passage Project where she represented migrant children. She has also served as a pro bono trial attorney at The Children’s Law Center, representing juveniles in custody proceedings.

Brown’s academic teaching experience includes serving as a guest lecturer at the Columbia Law School and the Cardozo School of Law and as a teaching assistant at the Touro University Fuchsberg Law Center.

Brown writes in criminal law and procedure, family regulation law, abolition and constitutional law. Her scholarship includes: “‘We Can’t Breathe.’ Like George Floyd, Black Families in New York City Have a Knee on Their Necks” in the Public Interest Law Reporter and “Impunity for the Incorrigible Psychopath?: Neurobiological Abnormalities Do Not Exempt Psychopaths from Criminal Responsibility” in the Charlotte Law Review.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and her law degree from Touro University.