He received his B.A. in philosophy from
Columbia College, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from
Columbia University. After law school, Shapiro served as a clerk for Judge
Pierre Leval on the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York. At Yale, he teaches in Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, and Cybersecurity. He is the author of work in
jurisprudence and legal theory, including
Legality (2011) He has also edited, with
Jules Coleman and
Kenneth Einar Himma, the
Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (2002). He has been cited for his work on the planning theory of law and for pioneering
experimental jurisprudence. He serves as an editor of
Legal Theory and the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. With
Oona A. Hathaway, he developed the concept of "outcasting" in international law and has been critical of humanitarian intervention without authorization from the
UN Security Council. His book with Hathaway,
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, was published by
Simon & Schuster in September 2017, and received wide acclaim by
The New Yorker,
The Financial Times, and
The Economist, among others. ==Bibliography==