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, Book Review: One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race (by Scott L. Malcomson), The American Lawyer 73-75 (October 2000)
Pamela S. Karlan, Kevin Reed, and Frederic Woocher, Brief Amici Curiae, Center for Governmental Studies, Benjamin E. Mays National Educational Resource Center and Professor Charles E. Nesson, Voting Integrity Project v. Fleischer, Case No. Civ. 00 0109 PHX PGR (D. Ariz. 2000).
Pamela S. Karlan, Norman Chachkin, Kimberly West Faucon, Brief Amici Curiae, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Hi-Voltage Wire Works, Inc. v. City of San Jose, ___ P.2d ___ (Cal. Sup. Ct. 2000)
Pamela S. Karlan, Politics by Other Means, 85 Virginia Law Review 1697-1724 (1999)
Pamela S. Karlan, Two Concepts of Judicial Independence, 72 Southern California Law Review 535-558 (1999)
Pamela S. Karlan, A Bigger Picture, in Reflecting All of Us: the Case for Proportional Representation. Robert Richie and Steven Hill, eds. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. p.73-78.
Pamela S. Karlan and Samuel Issacharoff, The Hydraulics of Campaign Finance Reform, 77 Texas Law Review 1705-1738 (1999)
Pamela S. Karlan, Constitutional Law, the Political Process, and the Bondage of Discipline., 32 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1185-1197 (1999)
Pamela S. Karlan, It's Not Black and White Any More: Contemporary Controversies in Voting Rights, 43 New York Law School Review 137-157 (1999)
Pamela S. Karlan, A Tribute to Justice Harry A. Blackmun, 113 Harvard Law Review 5-19 (1999)
Pamela S. Karlan, Justice and Mercy, Religion and Values in Public Life, Vol. 7, No.2/3, p.5-15 (1999)
Pamela S. Karlan, Some Thoughts of Autonomy and Equality in Relation to Justice Blackmun., 26 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 59 (1998)
Pamela S. Karlan, The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on African Americans: Second and Third Generation Issues, in Voting Rights and Redistricting in the United States. Mark E. Rush, ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. p.121-140.
Pamela S. Karlan and Daniel R. Ortiz, Constitutional Farce, in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies. William N. Eskridge, ed. New York: New York University Press, 1998. p.180-188.
Pamela S. Karlan, Two Section Twos and Two Section Fives: Voting Rights and Remedies After Flores, 39 William and Mary Law Review 725-741 (1998).
Pamela S. Karlan, The Geography of Race in Elections: Color Blindness and Redistricting, 14 Journal of Law and Politics 109-152 (1998).
Pamela S. Karlan and Daniel R. Ortiz, Constitutional Elitism? Some Skepticism about Dogmatic Assertions, 30 McGeorge Law Review 117-124 (1998).
Pamela S. Karlan, The Fire Next Time: Reapportionment After the 2000 Census, 50 Stanford Law Review 731-63 (1998).
Pamela S. Karlan, The Path of the Law Firm: A Comment of Ribstein's Ethical Rules, Agency Costs, and Law Firm Structure, 84 Virginia Law Review 1761-1775 (1998).
Pamela S. Karlan and Samuel Issacharoff, Standing and Misunderstanding in Voting Rights Law, 111 Harvard Law Review 2276-2292 (1998).

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