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, Constitutional Law as Trademark, 43 UC Davis Law Review 385 (2009).
Pamela S. Karlan, Lessons Learned: Voting Rights and the Bush Administration, 4 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 17 (2009).
Pamela S. Karlan, Bullets, Ballots, and Battles on the Roberts Court, 35 Ohio Northern University Law Review 445 (2009).
Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet, and Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law, New York: Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed., 2009.
Pamela S. Karlan, Validating Congress's Approach, Room For Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, June 22, 2009.
Pamela S. Karlan, Voting Rights and the Third Reconstruction, in The Constitution in 2020, Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel, eds., New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, and Christopher H. Schroeder, Keeping Faith with the Constitution, Washington, DC: American Constitution Society, May 2009.
Pamela S. Karlan, Any Gains Could Easily Be Lost, Room For Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, April 29, 2009.
Pamela S. Karlan, What Can Brown® Do For You?: Neutral Principles and the Struggle Over the Equal Protection Clause, 58 Duke Law Journal 1049 (March 2009).
Pamela S. Karlan, Electing Judges, Judging Elections and the Lessons of Caperton, 123 Harvard Law Review 80 (2009).
Geoffry R. Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet and Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law, 2008 Supplement, New York: Aspen Publishers, 5th ed., 2008.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Law of Small Numbers: Gonzales v. Carhart, Parents Involved in Community Schools, and Some Themes From the First Full Term of the Roberts Court, 86 North Carolina Law Review 1369 (June 2008).
Pamela S. Karlan, Thomas C. Goldstein, Reid H. Weingarten and Amy Howe, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari: Kay v. United States of America, No. 07- in the Supreme Court of the United States (April 9, 2008).
Thomas C. Goldstein, Kevin K. Russell, Kassius O. Benson and Pamela S. Karlan, Reply Brief for the Petitioner: Greenlaw v. United States of America, No. 07-330 in the Supreme Court of the United States (April 8, 2008).
Geoffry R. Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet and Pamela S. Karlan, The First Amendment,, New York: Aspen Publishers, 3rd ed., 2008.
Pamela S. Karlan and Karen Getman, Pluralists and Republicans, Rules and Standards: Conflicts of Interest and the California Experience, in Conflict of Interest and Public Life: Cross-National Perspectives, Christine Trost and Alison L. Gash, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Pamela S. Karlan, Jeffrey L. Fisher, et. al., Brief in Opposition: Dickinson v. Collier, No. 07-197 in the Supreme Court of the United States (November 2007).
Pamela S. Karlan, Framing the Voting Rights Claims of Cognitively Impaired Individuals, 38 McGeorge Law Review (2007).
Pamela S. Karlan, Compelling Interests/Compelling Institutions: Law Schools as Constitutional Litigants, 54 UCLA Law Review 1613 (August 2007).
Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan and Richard H. Pildes, The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, New York: Foundation Press, 3rd ed., August 2007.

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