Shakeer Rahman is a civil rights attorney who represents political groups, the press, and victims of government abuse. He co-teaches the Community Lawyering in Education Clinic.

Since 2021, Shakeer has been in-house counsel for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, based at the Los Angeles Community Action Network. Shakeer previously worked as Senior Staff Attorney at The Bail Project and as an Impact Litigation Attorney at The Bronx Defenders, where he was a Skadden Fellow. Before that, Shakeer was a law clerk to Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar on the Supreme Court of California and to Judge Beverly Martin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. 

Shakeer received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Harvard Law Review editor, and a B.A. in South Asian history from Columbia University. His writing has been published in the Harvard Law Review, the New York Times, Dissent Magazine, Al Jazeera America, the Abolitionist, Inquest, Vice Magazine, and the London Review of Books.