{"id":11,"date":"2024-08-17T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:01:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11\" class=\"elementor elementor-11\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-094f6ac e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"094f6ac\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32c72ce e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"32c72ce\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29bb60c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"29bb60c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Shani M. King<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b1e23a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4b1e23a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-edf0663 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"edf0663\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Trained as a children\u2019s rights lawyer, Shani is currently a Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. He was previously at the University of Florida College of Law, where he directed the Center on Children and Families. Shani writes and speaks on issues related to children&#8217;s rights, race, immigration and social justice.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc6b910 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"bc6b910\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30074a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"30074a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cropped-shani-king-profile2.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-74\" alt=\"A black man with a bald head in a white button up shirt with a light blue tie.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cropped-shani-king-profile2.png 512w, https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cropped-shani-king-profile2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cropped-shani-king-profile2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c440bc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2c440bc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9472ee9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"9472ee9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c49c9b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6c49c9b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a3ef75 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8a3ef75\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Shani<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0246008 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0246008\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Shani attended public school just outside of Boston and later went on to attend Brown University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University.\u00a0 After graduating from law school, Professor King spent a year in the Dominican Republic studying the impact of an educational reform effort on rural elementary school children.<\/p><p>After his time in the Dominican Republic, Professor King practiced white-collar criminal defense and securities litigation in New York City for a large corporate law firm and later for a small white-collar litigation boutique.\u00a0 Professor King then returned to public interest work in San Francisco, where he represented children in human rights, immigration, school discipline, dependency and guardianship proceedings.<\/p><p>Professor King taught at the University of Florida Levin College of Law from 2007-2022, where he directed the Center on Children and Families. \u00a0At Rutgers, he teaches Family Law, Immigration Law, International Children\u2019s Rights, Children and the Law, as well courses on Race and the Law.<\/p><p>Professor King\u2019s primary area of interest is children\u2019s rights, but he covers other substantive areas that intersect with the rights of children, including immigration law and policy, educational law, and race and the law.\u00a0 Professor King is the co-editor of the <em>Oxford Handbook of Children\u2019s Rights Law<\/em> and is also an award-winning author of children\u2019s books.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32c1fd8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32c1fd8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sk2712_CV-03.23.26.pdf\">View Shani M. 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