[1] Since 2022, he has been a Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law.
[2] As an academic, Shane is best known for his writings in constitutional and administrative law, with a special focus on issues of executive power and democracy.
Political scientists William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe have credited Shane, along with Bruce Ackerman, as having “the insight and analytics, early in the game, to see the authoritarian threat” latent in the late-20th/early-21st century U.S. presidency.
Shane expanded on his argument in the 2022 book, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.
[5] The latter volume offered a yet more general critique of originalism as a method of constitutional interpretation, while arguing that, even taken on its own terms, originalism does not support the unitary executive theory that undergirds the presidentialist jurisprudence of the current Roberts Court.