Emory Law School Website

Charles A. Shanor

Professor of Law

Charles A. Shanor was president of the student government association at Rice University and a Rhodes Scholar. After earning both his B.A. and M.A. (in jurisprudence) from Oxford University, he received his J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Before joining the Emory faculty in 1975, he served as law clerk to Judge Elbert P. Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced with the Atlanta law firm of Sutherland, Asbill, & Brennan. After three years as General Counsel to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C., he returned to Emory in 1990, where he teaches and writes about the areas of employment discrimination, labor law, and constitutional law.

Professor Shanor's books include National Security and Military Law (West/Thomson Nutshell Series 2003), American Constitutional Law: Structure and Reconstruction (West, 2000), Military Law in a Nutshell (2nd ed., West, 1996, with Hogue), and a forthcoming volume entitled EEOC Litigation and Charge Resolution (BNA, 2002, with Livingston). His articles and book chapters include "Battleground for a Divided Court: Employment Discrimination in the Supreme Court, 1988-1989," in The Labor Lawyer (1990), "Some Observations on Broadly Construing Civil Rights Laws," 14 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 8 (1991), Sexual Harassment in Employment Law by B. Schlei, P. Grossman, and D. Kadue (Bureau of National Affairs, 1991), Employment Discrimination Law (Bureau of National Affairs, annual supplements).

Professor Shanor served in a part-time Of Counsel position in the Washington, D.C. and Atlanta offices of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky, and Walker from 1990 through 1997. He continues to do occasional consulting, expert witness, and appellate work on employment discrimination and constitutional law matters.

Professor of Law. B.A., Rice University, 1968; B.A., Juris., 1972, M.A., 1977, Oxford University; J.D., University of Virginia., 1973.