Professor Shulman holds a Ph.D. in English Literature (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980) as well as a J.D. (Georgetown University Law Center, 2005). From 1984 to 2005, he taught in the Department of English at Georgetown University. Upon graduation from the Law Center, Professor Shulman worked for the Washington, D.C., Public Defenders Service as a D.C. Bar Pro Bono Fellow. He was an associate at Sidley Austin (Washington, D.C.) from 2005 to 2006.

In addition to publications in literary criticism, Professor Shulman co-edited Robert Kennedy In His Own Words (Bantam, 1988), a New York Times best-seller (for one week!). His current research is concerned with the relational character of constitutional rights, the law of church and state (statutory efforts to determine the scope of the Free Exercise Clause; the Religion Clauses and adjudication of family law issues; and the ministerial exemption to Title VII), and the mysterious world of narrative jurisprudence.

Professor Shulman teaches Legal Research and Writing.