Pamela S. Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Pamela S. Karlan, Karlan's Court: Sometimes an Amendment Is Just an Amendment, Boston Review, September/October 2011, p. 10.
Thomas C. Goldstein, Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Pamela S. Karlan, Anthony T. Falzone (Counsel of Record), Julie A. Ahrens, Daniel K. Nazer, Hugh Q. Gottschalk, Carolyn J. Fairless, Reply Brief: Lawrence Golan et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. Holder, Jr. et al., Respondents, No. 10-545 in the Supreme Court of the United States, August 31, 2011.
Pamela S. Karlan, Old Reasons, New Reasons, No Reasons, Henry J. Miller Lecture Series Article, 27 Georgia State University Law Review 873 (2011).
Pamela S. Karlan, Karlan's Court: Me, Inc., Boston Review, July/August 2011, p. 10.
Thomas C. Goldstein, Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Pamela S. Karlan, Anthony T. Falzone (Counsel of Record), Julie A. Ahrens, Daniel K. Nazer, Hugh Q. Gottschalk, Carolyn J. Fairless, Brief for the Petitioner: Lawrence Golan et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. Holder, Jr. et al., Respondents, No. 10-545 in the Supreme Court of the United States, June 14, 2011.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Reconstruction of Voting Rights, in Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Pamela S. Karlan, Karlan's Court: It Takes Two, Boston Review, May/June 2011, p. 10.
Pamela S. Karlan, Lightning in the Hand: Indians and Voting Rights, 120 Yale Law Journal 1420 (2011). Previously a Stanford Public Law Working Paper.
Pamela S. Karlan, Karlan's Court: The Health Care Challenge Threatens All Regulation, Boston Review, March/April 2011.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Gay and the Angry: The Supreme Court and the Battles Surrounding Same-Sex Marriage, 2010 Supreme Court Review 159 (2011).
Pamela S. Karlan, Karlan's Court: Ten Years After Bush v. Gore, Boston Review, January/February 2011.
Geoffry R. Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet and Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law, 2010 Supplement, New York: Aspen Publishers, 6th ed., 2010.
Pamela S. Karlan, Karlan's Court: Acting Out, Boston Review, Nov./Dec. 2010, p. 10.
John C. Jeffries, Jr., Pamela S. Karlan, Peter W. Low and George A. Rutherglen, Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution, 2nd edition, New York: Foundation Press, 2007, 2010 Supplement.
Pamela S. Karlan, Karlan's Court: In the Beginning, Bostonreview.net, Sept./Oct. 2010, p. 7.
Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan and Christopher H. Schroeder, Criminal Justice: Protecting Your Rights, chapter 8 of Keeping Faith With the Constitution, Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan and Christopher H. Schroeder, reproduced in the Daily Journal, September 2, 2010.
Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, and Christopher H. Schroeder, Keeping Faith with the Constitution, New York: Oxford, 2010.
Pamela S. Karlan, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Can States Abolish the Institution of Marriage?, 98 California Law Review 697 (2010)
Pamela S. Karlan, What Can Brown Do For You? The Court's Struggle Over the Meaning of Equal Protection, SCOTUSblog.com, February 22, 2010.
Pamela S. Karlan, Shoe-Horning, Shell Games, and Enforcing Constitutional Rights in the Twenty-First Century 78, UMKC Law Review 875 (2010).

karlan@stanford.edu

650.725.4851

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA Yale University 1980
MA Yale University University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1984
JD Yale Law School 1984

Expertise:

Antidiscrimination Law
Civil Procedure and Litigation
Clinical Education
Constitutional Law
Criminal Procedure
Employment Discrimination
Race and the Law
The Supreme Court