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, Line-Drawing Case Signals Justices' New Willingness to Consider Race, Daily Journal, May 4, 2001. p.4
Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth A. Gross, Stephen M. Nickelsburg, Daniel R. Ortiz and Trevor Potter, The Federal Regulation of Elections: Background Report of the Task Force on Legal and Constitutional Issues, National Commission on Federal Election Reform, August, 2001.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Newest Equal Protection: Regressive Doctrine on a Changeable Court, The Vote: Bush, Gore and the Supreme Court, edited by Cass R. Sunstein and Richard A. Epstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. p.77-97
Pamela S. Karlan, Sanuel Issacharoff and Richard H. Pildes, When Elections Go Bad: The Law of Democracy and the Presidential Election of 2000, Revised Edition., New York: Foundation Press, 2001.
Pamela S. Karlan, Building Consensus on Election Reform, A Report of the Constitution Project's Forum on Election Reform, August 2001.
Pamela S. Karlan, Nothing Personal: The Evolution of the Newest Equal Protection from Shaw v. Reno to Bush v. Gore, 79 North Carolina Law Review 1345-1366 (2001)
Pamela S. Karlan, Counsel: Right to Counsel, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2nd edition. Joshua Dressler, Editor in Chief. New York: Gale Group, 2001. p.271-277. (Volume 1)
Pamela S. Karlan, Counsel: Right to Counsel, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, Joshua Dressler, editor in chief. Volume 1. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2001. p. 271-277.
Pamela S. Karlan, Unduly Partial: The Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment in Bush v. Gore, 29 Florida State University Law Review 587-602 (2001).
Pamela S. Karlan, Equal Protection: Bush v. Gore and the Making of a Precedent, in, The Unfinished Election of 2000. Jack N. Rakove, editor. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001. p. 159-199.
Pamela S. Karlan, Peter W. Low and John C. Jeffries, Jr., Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution, New York: Foundation Press, 2000. 897 pages.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Future of Voting Rights Litigation, Census 2000: Considerations and Strategies for State and Local Government, Benjamin E. Griffith, ed. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2000.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Irony of Immunity: The Eleventh Amendment, Irreparable Injury and Section 1983, Stanford Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 13 (June 2000).
Pamela S. Karlan, John C. Jeffries, Jr., Peter W. Low and George A. Rutherglen, Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution, New York: Foundation Press, 2000. 897 pages.
Pamela S. Karlan Samuel Issacharoff, and Richard H. Pildes, The Law of Democracy : Legal Structure of the Political Process: Supplement, Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 2000.
Pamela S. Karlan and Penda D. Hair, Redistricting for Inclusive Democracy: A Survey of the Voting Rights Landscape and Strategies for Post-2000 Redistricting, Ford Foundation, Advancement Project, 2000.
Pamela S. Karlan, Barbara R. Arnwine, Thomas J. Henderson, Edward Still, James U. Blacksher, Fred. D. Gray, Larry T. Menefee, Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, Jacqueline A. Berrien, Todd A. Cox, Jurisdictional Statement of Darryl Sinkfield et al., Sinkfield v. Kelley, ___ U.S. ___ (2000)
Pamela S. Karlan, How Should U.S. Supreme Court Rule? Court Correct to Side with Gore, USA Today, November 30, 2000. p.17A.
Pamela S. Karlan, Outracing The Past, American Lawyer, October 2000. p.73-75.
Pamela S. Karlan, The Court Casts Its Vote, New York Times, December 11, 2000, p.A31.

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