Michael Klarman

Michael J. Klarman, Race and Rights, in 3 The Cambridge History of Law in America 403 (Christopher Tomlins & Michael Grossberg eds., Cambridge Univ. Press…

Michael J. Klarman, Majoritarian Judicial Review: The Entrenchment Problem, 85 Geo. L.J. 491 (1997).

Michael J. Klarman, Rethinking the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Revolutions, 82 Va. L. Rev. 1 (1996).

Michael J. Klarman, Fidelity, Indeterminacy, and the Problem of Constitutional Evil, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 1739 (1997).

Michael J. Klarman, Brown, Racial Change, and the Civil Rights Movement, 80 Va. L. Rev. 7 (1994).

Michael J. Klarman, How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis, 81 J. Am. Hist. 81 (1994).

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…

Michael J. Klarman, Letter to the Editor, 81 J. Am. Hist. 1429 (1994).

Michael J. Klarman, Brown, Originalism, and Constitutional Theory: A Response to Professor McConnell, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1881 (1995).

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…

Michael J. Klarman, Antifidelity, 70 S. Cal. L. Rev. 381 (1997).

Michael J. Klarman, Brown v. Board of Education: Facts and Political Correctness, 80 Va. L. Rev. 185 (1994).

Prerequisites: None Exam type: Any Day Take-Home This course focuses on the structure of the United States government, including the doctrines of separation of powers…

Michael J. Klarman, The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution (Oxford Univ. Press 2016).

Michael J. Klarman, Parliamentary Reversal of the Osborne Judgment, 32 Hist. J. 893 (1989).

Michael J. Klarman, The Puzzling Resistance to Political Process Theory, 77 Va. L. Rev. 747 (1991).

Michael J. Klarman, Windsor and Brown: Marriage Equality and Racial Equality, 127 Harv. L. Rev. 127 (2013).

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…

Michael J. Klarman, Tribute, Judicial Statesmanship: Justice Breyer’s Concurring Opinion in Van Orden v. Perry, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 452 (2014).

Michael J. Klarman, Has the Supreme Court Been More a Friend or Foe to African Americans?, 140 Daedalus 101 (2011).

Michael J. Klarman, The Judges versus the Unions: The Development of British Labor Law, 1867-1913, 75 Va. L. Rev. 1487 (1989).

Michael J. Klarman, The Foundng Revisited, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 544 (2011) (reviewing Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788).

Michael J. Klarman, Foreword: The Degradation of American Democracy—and the Court, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (2020).

Michael J. Klarman, Brown at 50, 90 Va. L. Rev. 1613 (2004).

Michael J. Klarman, It Could Have Gone the Other Way, 278 Nation 24 (2004).

Michael J. Klarman, The Plessy Era, 1998 Sup. Ct. Rev. 303.

Michael J. Klarman, Constitutional Fetishism and the Clinton Impeachment Debate, 85 Va. L. Rev. 631 (1999).

Michael J. Klarman, The Racial Origins of Modern Criminal Procedure, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 48 (2000).

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).

Michael J. Klarman, Bush v. Gore Through the Lens of Constitutional History, 89 Calif. L. Rev. 1721 (2001).

Michael J. Klarman, How Great Were the “Great” Marshall Court Decisions?, 87 Va. L. Rev. 1111 (2001).

Michael J. Klarman, What’s So Great About Constitutionalism?, 93 Nw. U. L. Rev. 145 (1998).

Michael J. Klarman, Race and the Court in the Progressive Era, 51 Vand. L. Rev. 881 (1998).

Michael Klarman, The Constitution as a Coup Against the Public Opinion, 3 Revista de Estudos Institucionais 255 (2017).

Prerequisites: None Exam type: Any Day Take-Home This course is one of the two basic courses in the field. It focuses on the structure of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course considers, from the perspective of social and political history, American constitutional development from the Articles of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

There is no exam or long-paper requirement. Students are expected to attend class, do the readings, and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course is one of the two basic courses in the field.

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course examines, from the perspective of social and political history, constitutional developments from the enactment of the…

Michael J. Klarman, Court, Congress, and Civil Rights, in Congress & the Constitution 173 (Neal Devins, Keith Whittington & Mark A. Graber, eds., 2020).

Michael J. Klarman, The Democrats’ Last Chance to Save Democracy, Atlantic (Feb. 22, 2021).

Michael J. Klarman, McCain might be the right name for a Senate building. Russell sure isn’t., Wash. Post (Aug. 30, 2018).

Michael J. Klarman, Tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 56 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 27 (2021).

Michael Klarman, The Constitution As a Coup Against Public Opinion (2019).

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…

Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford Univ. Press 2004).

Michael J. Klarman, Social Reform Litigation and Its Challenges: An Essay in Honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , 32 Harv. J.L. & Gender 251…