Michael Klarman
{{Short description|American historian}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}}
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|name=Michael Klarman
|image=a michael klarman 2010.JPG
|caption=Klarman speaking at Harvard Law Class Day 2010
|birth_name=Michael J. Klarman
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1959}}
|nationality=American
|education=University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA)
Stanford Law School (JD)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Legal historian
- scholar
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|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.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/civil-rights/klarman-aaas-address.html |title=Professor Michael Klarman delivers address on the Supreme Court and race at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences |access-date=1 July 2012}} Currently, Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oah.org/trash/4261.1.24_lectures-1/|title=Login • ProcessWire • oah.org|website=www.oah.org|accessdate=21 May 2023|archive-date=November 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128023841/http://oah.org/activities/lectureship/2009/lecturer.php?id=224|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.virginia.edu/history/user/67 |title=Michael Klarman {{!}} Corcoran Department of History |website=www.virginia.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724000118/http://www.virginia.edu/history/user/67 |archive-date=2008-07-24}}
Early life and education
Klarman grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Herbert E. Klarman, was a public health economist.{{cite web|last=Klarman|first=Michael|title=A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship|url=http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/09/skeptical-view-of-constitution-worship.html|access-date=13 May 2011}} He is the brother of investor Seth Klarman.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130721064438/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-06-19/news/9906190433_1_garrott-klarman-economist "Herbert Klarman, 82, professor, health economist"], Baltimore Sun, June 19, 1999.
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.wsc.edu/alumni/news/archive/091108_centennial.php |title=WSC {{!}} Alumni {{!}} News {{!}} Message from the Director |website=www.wsc.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209072359/http://www.wsc.edu/alumni/news/archive/091108_centennial.php |archive-date=2010-02-09}} His dissertation was titled "The Osborne Judgment: A Legal/Historical Analysis".{{Cite web |title=Thesis: The Osborne judgment : a legal/historical analysis |url=https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph011313881&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US&context=L |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk |language=en}} 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.{{cite news| url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/1/24/constitutional-law-professor-klarman-joins-hls/| title=Constitutional Law Professor Klarman Joins HLS| work=The Harvard Crimson| author= Kevin Zhou| date=January 24, 2008 }}[http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/01/24_klarman.php "Michael Klarman to join HLS faculty,"] Harvard Law School press release, January 24, 2008.
Scholarship
Klarman specializes in the constitutional history of race.{{cite news|last=Scott|first=Janny|date=March 23, 2008|title=What Politicians say When They Talk About Race|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/weekinreview/23scott.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|access-date=13 May 2011}} 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.
Klarman has also defended political process theory as a method of constitutional interpretation.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.
Awards
- 2005 Bancroft Prize
Works
- {{cite journal |last1=Klarman |first1=Michael J. |date=1994 |title=How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=81–118 |doi=10.2307/2080994 |jstor=2080994}} [https://doi.org/10.2307/2080994 Preview.]
- Discussion between Klarman and Michael W. McConnell regarding Brown v. Board of Education
:* {{cite journal | last = McConnell | first = Michael W. | author-link = Michael W. McConnell | title = Originalism and the desegregation decisions | journal = Virginia Law Review | volume = 81 | issue = 4 | pages = 947–1140 | date = May 1995 | doi = 10.2307/1073539 | jstor = 1073539 | url = https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12624&context=journal_articles }}
::*Response to McConnell: {{cite journal | last = Klarman | first = Michael J. | title = Response: Brown, originalism, and constitutional theory: a response to Professor Mcconnell | journal = Virginia Law Review | volume = 81 | issue = 7 | pages = 1881–1936 | date = October 1995 | doi = 10.2307/1073643 | jstor = 1073643 }}
:::*Response to Klarman: {{cite journal | last = McConnell | first = Michael W. | author-link = Michael W. McConnell | title = Reply: The originalist justification for Brown: a reply to Professor Klarman | journal = Virginia Law Review | volume = 81 | issue = 7 | pages = 1937–1955 | date = October 1995 | doi = 10.2307/1073644 | jstor = 1073644 }}
- {{cite journal | last = Klarman | first = Michael J. | title = Is the Supreme Court sometimes irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s | journal = The Journal of American History | volume = 89 | issue = 1 | pages = 119–153 | date = June 2002 | doi = 10.2307/2700787 | jstor = 2700787 }}
- {{cite book | last = Klarman | first = Michael J.| title= From Jim Crow to civil rights: the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality | publisher= Oxford University Press | year= 2004| isbn= 9780195129038 }} [https://archive.org/details/fromjim_kla_2004_00_2378 Preview.]
- {{cite book | last = Klarman | first = Michael J. | title = Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2007 | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-19-530763-4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LEEMAWCU45oC}} [https://archive.org/details/brownvboardofedu00mich Preview.]
- {{cite book |last=Klarman |first=Michael J. |title=Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywESDAAAQBAJ |isbn=978-0-19-994203-9}} [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195304282/ Preview]
- {{cite book |last=Klarman |first=Michael J. |date=October 14, 2016 |title=The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution |location=New York |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-framers-coup-9780199942039?cc=us&lang=en& |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-994203-9}} [https://archive.org/details/framerscoupmakin0000klar Preview.]
References
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External links
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- [http://hnn.us/articles/11371.html "Interview with Michael J. Klarman, Winner of the 2005 Bancroft Prize", History News Network, 4-18-05]
- [http://www.virginialawreview.org/inbrief.php?s=inbrief&p=2008/02/18/index "Book Excerpt: Unfinished Business", Virginia Law Review, February 18, 2008]
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