Michael J. Klarman
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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 is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He was a member of the Law School faculty from 1987-2008.
While 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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In the Media
- "What Politicians Say When They Talk About Race" (New York Times, 03/23/2008)
- "Professor Says There's 'Unfinished Business' When it Comes to Race Relations" (WVIR NBC-29, 01/21/2008)
- "Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History" (Miller Center of Public Affairs, 01/21/2008)
- "1968: A Spiral of Chaos and Death" (U.S. News & World Report, 01/17/2008)
- "UVA Law Professor Michael J. Klarman on CBS19 News" (WCAV-TV CBS-19 News, 11/29/2007)
- "Prof. Looks at Race and Politics [with interview transcript] / Supreme Court Expert Condemns GOP's "Southern Strategy" (C-Ville Weekly, 10/16/2007)
- "Supreme Downsizing / A Growing Group of Scholars from Both Left and Right Say the Nation's Highest Court is Out of Control. Cut Back Its Power, They Argue, and the Country Will Be Better Off" (The Boston Globe, 10/07/2007)
- "In Little Rock, a Small Act of Defiance Endures" (USA Today, 08/30/2007)
- "Mourning in America" (The Nation, 07/12/2007)
- "Can a Law Change a Society?" (The New York Times, 07/01/2007)
- "Courting Controversy" (Time, 06/28/2007)
- "Case Won on Appeal (To Public)" (New York Times, 07/30/2006)
- "The Day after Roe" (Atlantic Monthly, 06/01/2006)
- "Go Ahead...I Dare Ya!/With its Sweeping New Antiabortion Law, South Dakota Has 'Dared' the Supreme Court, as One Scholar Puts It, to Overturn Roe" (Boston Globe, 04/23/2006)
- "Closet Liberals" (Financial Times, 08/06/2005)
- "A New Look at Old Crimes" (U.S. News & World Report, 06/21/2005)
- "A Really Restrained Judiciary/Attacking Judicial Activism Isn't Just for Conservatives Anymore" (The Boston Globe, 10/17/2004)
- "Amendment Votes Fairly Common," (Fargo [N.D.] Forum, 10/04/2004)
- "Lesbian Appeals Va. Custody Ruling/Legal Experts Say Judge Acted Within His Authority" (The Washington Blade, 09/03/2004)
- "Fifty Years After Brown v. Board, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Carries on Civil Rights Fight" (AP/Kansas City Star, 08/22/2004)
- "Better Late Than Never" (author) (The New York Times, 05/17/2004)
- "Brown vs. Board of Education: 50 Years Later/1954 Ruling Seen as Model of Judicial Activism/Landmark Segregation and Gay Nuptial Cases Have Similarities" (San Francisco Chronicle, 05/17/2004)
- "The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Ed." (NPR "Morning Edition", 05/17/2004)
- "Crossing the Color Line" (NPR's "Talk of the Nation", 05/17/2004)
- "Robinson's Effect Felt Beyond Baseball" (Dallas Morning News, 05/17/2004)
- "A Mortal Wound to Heart of Jim Crow" (Houston Chronicle , 05/16/2004)
- "Still Striving Toward A More Perfect Union" (Los Angeles Times, 05/16/2004)
- "Brown v. Board, Then And Now" (U.S. Newswire, 05/12/2004)
