Instructors
Michael J. Klarman
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Court, Congress, and Civil Rights
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Court, Congress, and Civil Rights, in Congress & the Constitution 173 (Neal Devins, Keith Whittington & Mark A. Graber, eds., 2020).
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The Democrats’ Last Chance to Save Democracy
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, The Democrats’ Last Chance to Save Democracy, Atlantic (Feb. 22, 2021).
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Opinion | McCain might be the right name for a Senate building. Russell sure isn’t.
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, McCain might be the right name for a Senate building. Russell sure isn’t., Wash. Post (Aug. 30, 2018).
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Tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 56 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 27 (2021).
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Foreword: The Degradation of American Democracy—and the Court
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Foreword: The Degradation of American Democracy—and the Court, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (2020).
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The Constitution as a Coup Against Public Opinion
October 19, 2022
Michael Klarman, The Constitution As a Coup Against Public Opinion (2019).
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The Constitution as a Coup Against the Public Opinion
October 19, 2022
Michael Klarman, The Constitution as a Coup Against the Public Opinion, 3 Revista de Estudos Institucionais 255 (2017).
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Brown v. Board of Education: Law or Politics?
October 19, 2022
Michael Klarman, Brown v. Board of Education: Law or Politics?, in From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American…
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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford Univ. Press 2004).
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Social Reform Litigation and Its Challenges: An Essay in Honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Social Reform Litigation and Its Challenges: An Essay in Honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , 32 Harv. J.L. & Gender 251…
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From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage (Oxford Univ. Press 2013).
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Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History (Oxford Univ. Press 2007).
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The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution (Oxford Univ. Press 2016).
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Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford Univ. Press 2007).
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Parliamentary Reversal of the Osborne Judgment
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Parliamentary Reversal of the Osborne Judgment, 32 Hist. J. 893 (1989).
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Majoritarian Judicial Review: The Entrenchment Problem
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Majoritarian Judicial Review: The Entrenchment Problem, 85 Geo. L.J. 491 (1997).
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Rethinking the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Revolutions
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Rethinking the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Revolutions, 82 Va. L. Rev. 1 (1996).
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Fidelity, Indeterminacy, and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Fidelity, Indeterminacy, and the Problem of Constitutional Evil, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 1739 (1997).
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Brown, Racial Change, and the Civil Rights Movement
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Brown, Racial Change, and the Civil Rights Movement, 80 Va. L. Rev. 7 (1994).
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How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis, 81 J. Am. Hist. 81 (1994).
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The Puzzling Resistance to Political Process Theory
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, The Puzzling Resistance to Political Process Theory, 77 Va. L. Rev. 747 (1991).
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Windsor and Brown: Marriage Equality and Racial Equality
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Windsor and Brown: Marriage Equality and Racial Equality, 127 Harv. L. Rev. 127 (2013).
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Brown at 50
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Brown at 50, 90 Va. L. Rev. 1613 (2004).
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Book Review: On the Limits of the Law: The Ironic Legacy of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Book Review, 101 Am. Hist. Rev. 1644 (1996)(reviewing Stephen C. Halpern, On the Limits of the Law: The Ironic Legacy of Title…
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Letter to the Editor
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Letter to the Editor, 81 J. Am. Hist. 1429 (1994).
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Michael J. Klarman, Brown, Originalism, and Constitutional Theory: A Response to Professor McConnell, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1881 (1995).
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Book Review: Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1963-1990
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Book Review, 82 J. Am. Hist. 849 (1995)(reviewing Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1963-1990, Chandler…
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Constitutional Fact/Constitutional Fiction: A Critique of Bruce Ackerman’s Theory of Constitutional Moments
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Constitutional Fact/Constitutional Fiction: A Critique of Bruce Ackerman’s Theory of Constitutional Moments, 44 Stan. L. Rev. 759 (1992)(reviewing Bruce Ackerman, We the…
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Civil Rights Law: Who Made It and How Much Did It Matter
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Civil Rights Law: Who Made It and How Much Did It Matter, 83 Geo. L.J. 433 (1994)(reviewing Mark V. Tushnet, Making Civil…
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Antifidelity
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Antifidelity, 70 S. Cal. L. Rev. 381 (1997).
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It Could Have Gone the Other Way
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, It Could Have Gone the Other Way, 278 Nation 24 (2004).
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Michael J. Klarman, Tribute, Judicial Statesmanship: Justice Breyer’s Concurring Opinion in Van Orden v. Perry, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 452 (2014).
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Michael J. Klarman, Has the Supreme Court Been More a Friend or Foe to African Americans?, 140 Daedalus 101 (2011).
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Michael J. Klarman, The Judges versus the Unions: The Development of British Labor Law, 1867-1913, 75 Va. L. Rev. 1487 (1989).
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The Founding Revisited
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, The Foundng Revisited, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 544 (2011) (reviewing Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788).
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The Plessy Era
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, The Plessy Era, 1998 Sup. Ct. Rev. 303.
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Brown v. Board of Education: Facts and Political Correctness
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Brown v. Board of Education: Facts and Political Correctness, 80 Va. L. Rev. 185 (1994).
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Why Massive Resistance
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Why Massive Resistance, in Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction 21 (Clive Webb ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
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Constitutional Fetishism and the Clinton Impeachment Debate
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Constitutional Fetishism and the Clinton Impeachment Debate, 85 Va. L. Rev. 631 (1999).
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Neither Hero Nor Villain: The Supreme Court, Race, and the Constitution in the Twentieth Century — Chapter 1: The Plessy Era
October 19, 2022
Michael Klarman, Neither Hero nor Villain: The Supreme Court, Race, and the Constitution in the Twentieth Century: Chapter 1: The Plessy Era (U. Va. Sch.
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Neither Hero Nor Villain: The Supreme Court, Race, and the Constitution in the Twentieth Century — Chapter 2: The Progressive Era
October 19, 2022
Michael Klarman, Neither Hero nor Villain: The Supreme Court, Race, and the Constitution in the Twentieth Century: Chapter 2: The Progressive Era (U. Va. Sch.
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The Racial Origins of Modern Criminal Procedure
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, The Racial Origins of Modern Criminal Procedure, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 48 (2000).
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Rethinking the History of American Freedom
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Rethinking the History of American Freedom, 42 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 265 (2000)(reviewing Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (1998)).
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Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s, 89 J. Am. Hist. 119 (2002).
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Bush v. Gore Through the Lens of Constitutional History
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, Bush v. Gore Through the Lens of Constitutional History, 89 Calif. L. Rev. 1721 (2001).
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How Great Were the “Great” Marshall Court Decisions?
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, How Great Were the “Great” Marshall Court Decisions?, 87 Va. L. Rev. 1111 (2001).
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The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences of Supreme Court Decisionmaking
October 19, 2022
Michael J. Klarman, The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences of Supreme Court Decisionmaking, 29 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 55 (2001).