Michael Klarman

Klarman speaking at Harvard Law Class Day 2010

Klarman discusses the U.S. Constitution on its 222nd anniversary

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Michael J. Klarman is an American legal historian, and constitutional law scholar, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School.^[2] Formerly, he was James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.^[3] Klarman specializes in the constitutional history of race.^[4] He contends that the Supreme Court of the United States has historically been hostile to the rights of minorities and has not consistently enforced constitutional protections for them. Klarman argues that civil rights protections arise out of social mores from which the court takes its cue. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/civil-rights/klarman-aaas-address.html^[5]

Life

Klarman holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a D.Phil. from Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar) and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.^[6] After his graduation from law school, he clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she was on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.^[7][8]

Klarman grew up in Baltimore. His father was a public health economist.^[9] He is the brother of investor Seth Klarman.

Awards

• 2005 Bancroft Prize

Works

• "Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s", Journal of American History, June 2002

• From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Oxford University Press. 2004. ISBN 9780195129038. http://books.google.com/books?id=NytV-qWjSBcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Michael+inauthor:J+inauthor:Klarman&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Unfinished business: racial equality in American history. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780195304282. http://books.google.com/books?id=mfJscBT47VEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Michael+inauthor:J+inauthor:Klarman&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Brown versus Board of Education and the civil rights movement. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780195307634. http://books.google.com/books?id=LEEMAWCU45oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Michael+inauthor:J+inauthor:Klarman&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/civil-rights/klarman-aaas-address.html. 
2. ^ http://www.oah.org/activities/lectureship/2009/lecturer.php?id=19
3. ^ http://www.virginia.edu/history/user/67
4. ^ Scott, Janny (March 23, 2008). "What Politicians say When They Talk About Race". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/weekinreview/23scott.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. Retrieved 13 May 2011. 
5. ^ Klarman, Michael. ""A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship"". http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/09/skeptical-view-of-constitution-worship.html. Retrieved 13 May 2011. 
6. ^ http://www.wsc.edu/alumni/news/archive/091108_centennial.php
7. ^ Kevin Zhou (January 24, 2008). "Constitutional Law Professor Klarman Joins HLS". The Harvard Crimson. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/1/24/constitutional-law-professor-klarman-joins-hls/. 
8. ^ "Michael Klarman to join HLS faculty," Harvard Law School press release, January 24, 2008.
9. ^ Klarman, Michael. ""A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship"". http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/09/skeptical-view-of-constitution-worship.html. Retrieved 13 May 2011. 

External links

• "Interview with Michael J. Klarman, Winner of the 2005 Bancroft Prize", History News Network, 4-18-05
• "Book Excerpt: Unfinished Business", Virginia Law Review, February 18, 2008

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