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

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

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.
Pamela S. Karlan, How Voting Rights Arose in Southern Courts (Book Review: Brian K. Landsberg, Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1865 Voting Rights Act), Legal Times, June 25, 2007, pg. 43.
Pamela S. Karlan, Section 5 Squared: Congressional Power to Extend and Amend the Voting Rights Act, 44 Houston Law Review 1 (2007).
Pamela S. Karlan, The Paradoxical Structure of Constitutional Litigation, 75 Fordham Law Review 1913 (2007).
Pamela S. Karlan, Judicial Independences, 95 Georgetown Law Journal 1041 (2007).
Pamela S. Karlan, John C. Jeffries, Jr., Peter W. Low and George A. Rutherglen, Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution, New York: Foundation Press, 2nd ed., 2007.
Geoffry R. Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet and Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law, 2007 Supplement, New York: Aspen Publishers, 5th ed., 2007.
Pamela S. Karlan, New Beginnings and Dead Ends in the Law of Democracy (Symposium: Election Law and the Roberts Court), 68 Ohio State Law Journal 743 (2007).
Pamela S. Karlan, Four: Find More Opportunities to Introduce Underrepresented Groups to Voting (in Six Ways to Reform Democracy: What Can Happen When Members of Congress Sit Down With Scholars), 31 Boston Review (2006).
Pamela S. Karlan, The Law Professor as Legal Commentator, 10 Legal Writing 209 (2004).
Pamela S. Karlan, Batson v. Kentucky: The Constitutional Challenges of Preemptory Challenges, in Criminal Procedure Stories, Carol S. Steiker, ed., New York: Foundation Press, 2006.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Partisan of Nonpartisanship: Justice Stevens and the Law of Democracy (Symposium: The Jurisprudence of Justice Stevens, Panel V: First Amendment/Voting Rights), 74 Fordham Law Review 2187 (2006).
Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet and Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law, 2006 Supplement, New York: Aspen Publishers, 5th ed., 2006.
Pamela S. Karlan, Contracting the Thirteenth Amendment: Hodges v. United States, 85 Boston University Law Review 783 (2005).
Pamela S. Karlan. With Geoffry R. Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Mark V. Tushnet, Constitutional Law, 5th ed., New York: Aspen Publishers, 2005.
Pamela S. Karlan, Introduction: Same-Sex Marriage as a Moving Story (Symposium: Same-Sex Couples: Defining Marriage in the Twenty-First Century), 16 Stanford Law & Policy Review 1-9 (2005).
Pamela S. Karlan, Go East Young Lawyers: The Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, 7 Journal of Appellate Practice And Process 207 (2005). (with Thomas C. Goldstein and Amy Howe)
Pamela S. Karlan, John Hart Ely and the Problem of Gerrymandering: The Lion in Winter, 114 Yale Law Journal 1329 (2005).
Kathleen M. Sullivan and Pamela S. Karlan, The Elysian Fields of the Law, Stanford University Law School. Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 104 (December 2004). 33 pages.
Jason H. Karlawish, Richard J. Bonnie, Paul S. Appelbaum, Constantine Lyketsos, Bryan James, David Knopman, Christopher Patusky, Rosalie A. Kane, Pamela S. Karlan. Addressing The Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Raised By Voting By Persons with Dementia, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 292 No. 11, September 15, 2004.

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