Michael
Klarman
James
Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor of History
Brown
v. the Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement
May 9,
2005
Charlottesville, VA

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Book:
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the
Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Articles:
Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the
Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s, 89 J. Am. Hist.
119 (2002).
Bush v. Gore Through the Lens of Constitutional History, 89
Cal. L. Rev. 1721 (2001), draft available online from SSRN.
How Great Were the 'Great' Marshall Court Decisions? 87
Va. L. Rev. 1111 (2001).
The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences
of Supreme Court Decisionmaking, 29 Fla. St. U. L.
Rev. 55 (2001).
The Racial Origins of Modern Criminal Procedure, 99
Mich. L. Rev. 48 (2000), draft available on-line from SSRN.
Constitutional Fetishism and the Clinton Impeachment
Debate, 85
Va. L. Rev. 631 (1999), draft available online from SSRN.
The Plessy Era, 1998 Sup. Ct. Rev. 303 (1998).
Race and the Court in the Progressive Era, 51 Vand.
L. Rev. (1998), abstract available on-line from SSRN.
What's So Great About Constitutionalism? 93 Nw. U.
L. Rev. 145 (1998)
Antifidelity, 70 S. Cal. L. Rev. 381 (1997).
Fidelity, Indeterminacy, and the Problem of Constitutional
Evil, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 1739 (1997).
Majoritarian Judicial Review: The Entrenchment Problem, 85
Geo. L. J. 491 (1997).
Rethinking the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Revolutions, 82
Va. L. Rev. 1 (1996).
Brown, Originalism, and Constitutional Theory: A Response
to Professor McConnell, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1881 (1995).
Brown, Racial Change, and the Civil Rights Movement, 80
Va. L. Rev. 7 (1994).
Civil Rights Law: Who Made It and How Much Did It Matter? (reviewing
Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law), 83 Geo. L. J. 433 (1994).
How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis, 81
J. Am. Hist. 81 (1994).
Reply: Brown v. Board of Education: Facts and Political
Correctness 80
Va. L. Rev. 185 (1994).
The Senate's Role in Supreme Court Appointments, Va.
L. Sch. Rep., Winter 1992, at 11-17.
Constitutional Fact/Constitutional Fiction: A Critique
of Bruce Ackerman's Theory of Constitutional Moments (reviewing
Ackerman, We the People: Foundations), 44 Stan. L. Rev. 759
(1992).
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About the speaker
Professor Klarman is a winner of
Columbia University’s prestigious 2005 Bancroft prize. His
book, “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and
the Struggle for Racial Equality” was described by a Bancroft
juror as not only their best account of Brown, its antecedents
and consequences, but also goes well beyond that important story
to make a larger set of arguments about the role of the Supreme
Court in helping to bring about social change. Mr. Klarman teaches
criminal law, constitutional law, theory, history. He has received
other prestigious awards including the first Roger and Madeleine
Traynor Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship.
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