Adamu K. Shauku, Ph.D.

A.K. Shauku began his career in U.S. Army Intelligence, collecting intelligence on North Korea in support of National Security Agency objectives and serving as a translator/liaison between the U.S. and South Korean militaries. He is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and the U.S. Army Signals Intelligence School (Cryptology). He was awarded the Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korea Defense Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, and other awards for his service.

Dr. Shauku holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alabama, with subfield specialization in American Politics, Public Policy & Administration, and Comparative Politics; a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law, with experience in Family Court Mediation; and a dual BA in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Shauku is the coordinator of Buffalo State's Pre-Law Program and teaches courses across the curriculum, including:

• PSC 102: Intro to American Government & Politics
• PSC 203: Political Analysis (Research Design)
• PSC 210: The American Presidency
• PSC 221: Judicial Process & Politics
• PSC 250: Intro to Law
• PSC 317/320: U.S. Constitutional Law
• PSC 330: American Foreign Policy
• PSC 364/PAD 540: American Public Policy
• PSC 410: Political Behavior & Public Opinion
• PSC 426: Mediation & Alternative Dispute Resolution 

and topics courses on Comparative Government and Race, Law & Politics.

Dr. Shauku studies institutional formation and institutional change, focusing on political and legal institutions—their logics, their limits, and their substitutes.

His current research is a book project on the decentralized structure of the U.S. federal judiciary, with an empirical focus on the causes and consequences of intercircuit conflict, i.e., regional variation in federal appellate court rulings. The project tracks appellate court conflicts in several domains of American law—search and seizure, securities, labor, and employment discrimination—and examines the costs and benefits of regional variation.

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