Claire Shennan was the David and Mickey Bazelon Fellow (2024 – 2026). Claire is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Blume Public Interest Scholar. During law school, Claire explored her passion for civil rights, health law, and gender justice while working with Pregnancy Justice, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Women’s Law Center. She also litigated civil and constitutional rights matters as a student attorney in the Civil Rights Clinic and the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, served as a Notes Editor on the Georgetown Law Journal, and was a research assistant for Professor Naomi Mezey.

Prior to law school, Claire discovered an interest in legal advocacy and public interest law at the Center for Reproductive Rights and a plaintiff-side employment law firm. She holds a Master of Philosophy with distinction in History from the University of Cambridge, where her dissertation centered on involuntary sterilization of federal and state aid recipients, and a B.A. in History from Brown University.

Claire is currently a judicial law clerk at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.