Areas of Focus
Mehwish Shaukat is an Equal Justice Works fellow in the MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court and Appellate Program. Her practice focuses on fighting in federal appellate courts nationwide to protect religious liberties in prison. She litigates prison conditions, solitary confinement, and civil rights cases.
Prior to joining MJC, Mehwish was a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers, where she maintained a robust pro bono practice in prisoners’ rights litigation and immigration. Her experience includes litigating an excessive confinement and parole case in the California Supreme Court, obtaining multiple asylum victories, and representing families separated at the border. In 2020, she published a law review article titled American Muslim Women: Who We Are and What We Demand From Feminist Jurisprudence.
Mehwish received her J.D. from Northwestern Law School where she was an editor for the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, was a student in the Death Penalty Clinic, and conducted senior research on the police’s practice of forcibly removing hijab.