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,, Brief for Appellants, United States v. Frank Smith and Connie Tyree, No. 98-6121 (11th Cir. 1998).
Pamela S. Karlan and others, Buckley Stops Here: Loosening the Judicial Stranglehold on Campaign Finance Reform, New York: The Century Foundation Press; Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Working Group on Campaign Finance Litigation, 1998.
Pamela S. Karlan and others, Buckley Stops Here: Loosening the Judicial Stranglehold on Campaign Finance Reform, New York: The Century Foundation Press; Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Working Group on Campaign Finance Litigation, 1998.
Pamela S. Karlan, Brief Amici Curiae, American Civil Liberties Union and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., State of Texas v. United States, 118 S.Ct. 1256 (1998).
Pamela S. Karlan, A Bigger Picture (Response to Robert Richie and Steven Hill, The Case for Proportional Representation), Boston Review 19 (February/March 1998).
Paul Brest, Pamela S. Karlan, Kathleen M. Sullivan, William Cohen, Gerald Gunther, Deborah L. Rhode, David W. Brady, and Jack N. Rakove, A Discussion of Impeachment [videorecording]: taped October 1998: a Production of the Stanford Channel, Stanford: Stanford University, 1998.
Pamela S. Karlan, Race, Rights, and Remedies in Criminal Adjudication, 96 Michigan Law Review 2001-2030 (1998).
Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, Richard H. Pilde, The Law of Democracy : Legal Structure of the Political Process, Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1998. 788 pages.
Pamela S. Karlan and Lani Guinier, The Majoritarian Difficulty: One Person, One-Vote, in Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence, E. Joshua Rosenkranz and Bernard Schwartz, eds., New York: W.W. & Co. Norton, 1997.
Pamela S. Karlan, Loss and Redemption: Voting Rights at the Turn of the Century., 50 Vanderbilt Law Review 291-326 (1997)
Pamela S. Karlan, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Akhil Reed Amar, .Susan Low Bloch, Susan Estrich, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Daniel A. Farber, Philip P. Frickey, Paul D. Gewirtz, John C. Jeffries, Jr., Sanford Levinson, Burke Marshall, Judith Resnik, Suzanna Sherry, Steven H. Shiffrin, Laurence H. Tribe, William Jefferson CLINTON, Petitioner, v. Paula Corbin JONES, Respondent, No. 95-1853. United States Supreme Court, October Term, 1996, BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF LAW PROFESSORS IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER, 72 F.3d 1354 (1996).
Pamela S. Karlan, Cousins' Kin: Justice Stevens and Voting Rights., 27 Rutgers Law Journal 521-541 (1996).
Pamela S. Karlan, Disabilities, Discrimination and Reasonable Accommodation., 46 Duke Law Journal 1-41 (1996).
Pamela S. Karlan, Daryl J. Levinson, Why Voting is Different., 84 California Law Review 1201-1232 (1996).
Pamela S. Karlan, Fee Shifting in Criminal Cases., 71 Chicago-Kent Law Review 583-602 (1996).
Pamela S. Karlan, Still Hazy After All These Years: Voting Rights in the Post-Shaw Era, 26 Cumberland Law Review 287-311 (1996)
Pamela S. Karlan, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy., 93 Michigan Law Review 1273-96 (1995).
Pamela S. Karlan and Thomas C. Goldstein, Court Still Ambivalent on Redistricting., 17 National Law Journal, p.A19, July 24, 1995.
Pamela S. Karlan and Thomas C. Goldstein, On a Collision Course: The Ambiguity of Shaw v. Reno Pits the Voting Rights Act Against the Constitution., Legal Times, p. 24, April 17, 1995.
Pamela S. Karlan, Bringing Compassion into the Province of Judging: Justice Blackmun and the Outsiders., 71 North Dakota Law Review 173-85 (1995).

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