Karen Bradshaw is a Professor of Law and Alan Matthenson Research Fellow at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Arizona State University. Bradshaw is also a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability, a Faculty Fellow at Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and a Faculty Affiliate Scholar at the New York University School of Law Classical Liberal Institute. Her work has been featured by major media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, NPR’s Planet Money, and The New York Times and has won numerous grants and awards. Professor Bradshaw is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Depolarized: How Nature Can Save America (Columbia University Press) and the internationally acclaimed book Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights (University of Chicago Press). Her teaching and research span the subjects of Property, Contracts, Environmental Law, Natural Resources, and Biodiversity.

Professor Bradshaw earned a JD with honors from University of Chicago Law School, where she served on the law review. She holds an MBA from California State University, Chico for working executives and a BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Regent’s Scholar. She clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and was the inaugural Koch-Searle Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Raised in the rural communities of Klamath, CA (population 700) and McCloud, CA(population 1,200) Bradshaw now lives divides her time between Phoenix, Arizona and a working vegetable farm outside Portland, Oregon.