Karen Bradshaw

About

Karen Bradshaw is a Professor of Law and Alan Matthenson Research Fellow at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She is also a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability, a Faculty Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and a Faculty Affiliate Scholar at the New York University School of Law Classical Liberal Institute. Her research and teaching focus on legal subjects including Property, Contracts, Environmental Law, Natural Resources, and Biodiversity. Bradshaw’s interdisciplinary work involves collaborations with artists, economists, scientists, philosophers, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies. She has authored several books, including the forthcoming "Depolarized: How Stakeholder Collaborations are Breaking Gridlock" and the internationally acclaimed "Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights." Her work has been featured in prominent media outlets such as Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, NPR, and The New York Times. Bradshaw has received numerous awards and grants, served in leadership roles within government and nonprofit organizations, and contributed to policy and legal discussions on wildlife, environmental law, and natural resource management. She earned her JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, an MBA from California State University, Chico, and a BS in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Biology
• Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Geography
• Philosophy
• Environmental planning
• Mathematics
• Cartography

Selected publications

• Wildlife as Property Owners

  2020 · 32 citations

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• Additional file 3 of Obesity supersizes macrophage and neutrophil activation after stroke while lipid droplets play a protective role

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  Additional file 3. Supplementary Figure 1. Predicted doublets do not alter biological interpretations. Description: Correlation of log₂FC values for all differentially expressed genes (FDR < 0.05) in Bl.Neut.1 (left) and Br.Macro.2 (right) comparing analyses performed with and without predicted doublets identified by DoubletFinder. Pearson’s correlation coefficient for both immune cell subtypes exceeds 0.9, indicating high agreement. In both approaches, Eno1b and Acot1 remain among the most s…

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• Additional file 9 of Obesity supersizes macrophage and neutrophil activation after stroke while lipid droplets play a protective role

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  Additional file 9. Supplementary Figure 7. Top obesity-enriched pathways and coagulation gene changes in blood neutrophils in mice after sham surgery. Description: Top obesity-changed pathways in Bl.Neut.1 (left), Bl.Neut.2 (middle), and Bl.Neut.3 (right) of mice after sham surgery. Pathways are from the MSigDB Hallmark 2020 database, genes used had fdr < 0.05. (B) Heatmap of classic coagulation genes changed by obesity after stroke in blood neutrophils.

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• Obesity supersizes macrophage and neutrophil activation after stroke while lipid droplets play a protective role

  Figshare · 2026-03-19

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  Abstract Obesity is a major stroke risk factor. By 72 h after ischemia, obese mice exhibit greater stroke sizes, neuroinflammation, and motor deficits. However, the immune mechanisms driving these outcomes remain incompletely understood. To define how obesity reshapes the immune response to stroke, we performed single-cell RNA sequencing of immune cells in the blood and brain 72 h after stroke or sham surgery in control-diet and diet-induced obese mice. In the blood, macrophages and neutrophils…

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• Additional file 4 of Obesity supersizes macrophage and neutrophil activation after stroke while lipid droplets play a protective role

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  Additional file 4. Supplementary Figure 2. Metabolic changes in response to a high fat diet. Description: (A-B) Curve and area under the curve for the glucose tolerance test. Welch’s T-test used to compare area under the curve (*p<0.05) (C-D) Weight over time and percent of weight gain between week 0 and week 6 of the high fat diet. Mann-Whitney test was used to compare percentage of weight gain (** p<0.001).

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Frequent coauthors

• Thomas Clemen

  13 shared

• Dane Brown

  Rhodes University

  11 shared

• Katherine James

  5 shared

• Guy F. Midgley

  5 shared

• S. Srinivas

  5 shared

• Dale Tristram

  Rhodes University

  5 shared

• Peter N. Schlegel

  4 shared

• William C. Dodson

  4 shared

Education

• Other

  University of Chicago Law School

• Other

  California State University, Chico

• B.S., Business Administration

  University of California-Berkeley

Awards & honors

• Desert Humanities Institute Fellow for 2021-2022
• 2020 Stegner Young Scholar Award

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