Michael Klarman Explained

Michael Klarman
Birth Name:Michael J. Klarman
Nationality:American
Education:University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA)
Stanford Law School (JD)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Father:Herbert E. Klarman
Relatives:Seth Klarman (brother)
Awards:Bancroft Prize (2005)

Michael J. Klarman (born 1959) is an American legal historian and scholar of constitutional law.[1] Currently, Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School.[2] Formerly, he was James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.[3]

Early life and education

Klarman grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Herbert E. Klarman, was a public health economist.[4] He is the brother of investor Seth Klarman.[5]

Klarman holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a D.Phil. from Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar) and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.[6] His dissertation was titled "The Osborne Judgment: A Legal/Historical Analysis".[7] After his graduation from law school, he clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she was on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[8] [9]

Scholarship

Klarman specializes in the constitutional history of race.[10] He contends that the Supreme Court of the United States has historically been hostile to the rights of minorities and has not consistently enforced constitutional protections for them. Klarman argues that civil rights protections arise out of social mores from which the court takes its cue.[4]

Klarman has also defended political process theory as a method of constitutional interpretation.[11]

Awards

Works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Michael Klarman delivers address on the Supreme Court and race at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . 1 July 2012.
  2. Web site: Login • ProcessWire • oah.org. www.oah.org. 21 May 2023. November 28, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101128023841/http://oah.org/activities/lectureship/2009/lecturer.php?id=224. dead.
  3. Web site: Michael Klarman Corcoran Department of History . www.virginia.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080724000118/http://www.virginia.edu/history/user/67 . 2008-07-24.
  4. Web site: Klarman. Michael. A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship. 13 May 2011.
  5. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-06-19/news/9906190433_1_garrott-klarman-economist "Herbert Klarman, 82, professor, health economist"
  6. Web site: WSC Alumni News Message from the Director . www.wsc.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100209072359/http://www.wsc.edu/alumni/news/archive/091108_centennial.php . 2010-02-09.
  7. Web site: Thesis: The Osborne judgment : a legal/historical analysis . 2023-05-07 . solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk . en.
  8. News: Constitutional Law Professor Klarman Joins HLS. The Harvard Crimson. Kevin Zhou. January 24, 2008 .
  9. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/01/24_klarman.php "Michael Klarman to join HLS faculty,"
  10. News: Scott. Janny. March 23, 2008. What Politicians say When They Talk About Race. The New York Times. 13 May 2011.
  11. Klarman, Michael J. (May 1991). "The Puzzling Resistance to Political Process Theory". Virginia Law Review. 77 (4): 747–832. doi:10.2307/1073297. JSTOR 1073297.

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