 
| Michael J. Klarman James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law Professor of History Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Research Professor J.D., Stanford Law School, 1983 D.Phil., Oxford University, 1988 M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1980 B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1980 Michael Klarman joined the Virginia faculty in 1987. He teaches criminal law, constitutional law, constitutional theory, and constitutional history. He held the Class of 1966 Research Professorship from 1993-96 and received the first Roger and Madeleine Traynor Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship in 1996. In 1997 he received a University of Virginia Harrison Achievement Award, a State Council of Higher Education Faculty Award, and the All-University Teaching Award, one of the University's highest honors for excellence in teaching, research, and service. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Law and History Review. At Stanford Law School, Klarman won numerous awards and served as senior articles and symposium editor of the Stanford Law Review; he also is a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation, Klarman clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He then completed his doctoral thesis in legal history as a Marshall Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2005, Klarman won the Bancroft Prize for "From Jim Crow to Civil Rights" (Oxford University Press, 2004). | |
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