Pamela Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law; Co-director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford University
Pam Karlan is the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional litigation. Karlan was previously principal deputy assistant attorney general in the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Prior to that, she was an assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Karlan has published dozens of scholarly articles and co-authored three casebooks and a monograph on constitutional interpretation: Keeping Faith with the Constitution. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Law Institute, her recognition includes the American Bar Association’s 2021 Margaret Brent Award, the 2016 Politico 50, and American Lawyer’s Public Sector 45.
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June brings the end of the Supreme Court term and, once again, a historically low number of decisions — but those decisions have a tremendous impact on the lives of Americans....