Anna Williams Shavers

Anna Williams Shavers is the Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law.

She received her J.D. degree (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor ofthe Minnesota Law Review. She was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1979 and the Nebraska bar in 1989. Other positions include: Associate, Faegre & Benson Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN and Associate Clinical Professor, University of Minnesota.  While at the University of Minnesota, Professor Shavers established that law school's first immigration clinic. Professor Shavers teaches Administrative Law; Immigration Law; Forced Migration (including Human Trafficking); International Gender Issues; and Gender, Race and Class.

She currently serves as Co-Chair of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking Planning Team, and a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). She has previously served as Chair of ABA Administrative Law Section, the Secretary and Publication Chair, a Council Member and Immigration Committee Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section, Chair of the AALS Section on Immigration Law, member of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and member of the ABA Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law. She is a frequent national and international presenter on immigration, human trafficking and administrative law issues.