Karen Bradshaw is a writer, scholar, and advocate for the more-than-human world.

Bradshaw is a Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Arizona State University, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability, a Faculty Fellow at Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and a Faculty Affiliate Scholar at the New York University School of Law Classical Liberal Institute. Bradshaw’s research and writing has been featured in prominent national media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, NPR's Planet Money, and The New York Times.

Bradshaw is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Depolarized: How Stakeholder Collaborations are Breaking Gridlock (Columbia), a book on the Rights of Nature, and the internationally acclaimed book Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights (Chicago). Wildlife as Property Owners was featured in the Official 2022 GRAMMY gift bags and was “highly recommended” in a Forbes book review. Bradshaw has also published over twenty-five academic articles, is currently curating an art book, and was a contributing co-editor on the defining book on wildfire law.

She researches and teaches the legal subjects of Property, Contracts, Environmental Law, Natural Resources, and Biodiversity. Her transdiscplinary work includes collaborations with artists, economists, scientists, philosophers, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies. Bradshaw was the Desert Humanities Institute Fellow for 2021-2022 and recipient of the 2020 Stegner Young Scholar Award.

Bradshaw earned a JD with honors from University of Chicago Law School, an MBA from California State University, Chico and a BS in Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Regent’s Scholar. She clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and was the Koch-Searle Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Bradshaw grew up in rural communities near the Klamath and McCloud Rivers and now spends time in re-wilded land in the Sonoran desert and on an organic farm in Oregon.

Her work invites people to radically reimagine the human relationship with nature by exploring their connection to place, land, animals, and one another.