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THE AUTHORS



Keeping Faith With the Constitution

 

PAMELA S. KARLAN is Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School. She also co-directs the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, which litigates before the Supreme Court on behalf of workers, criminal defendants, nonprofit organizations, and other groups and individuals who otherwise could not afford experienced Supreme Court counsel. Professor Karlan has also done extensive pro bono litigation in state and federal courts on voting rights, reproductive rights, and the civil rights of gay people. Her primary scholarly interests lie in the areas of constitutional law and litigation, voting rights, and criminal procedure. She is the co-author of several leading casebooks, including Constitutional Law (6th ed. 2009), The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process (3d ed. 2007), and Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution (2d ed. 2007), as well as dozens of scholarly articles. Her articles with particular relevance to this book include: “Bullets, Ballots, and Battles on the Roberts Court,” 35 Ohio Northern University Law Review (forthcoming 2009); “Loving Lawrence,” 102 Michigan Law Review 1447 (2004); “Equal Protection, Due Process, and the Stereoscopic Fourteenth Amendment,” 33 McGeorge Law Review 473 (2002); “The Majoritarian Difficulty: One Person, One-Vote,” in Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan’s Enduring Influence (E. Joshua Rosenkranz & Bernard Schwartz eds., 1997) (with Lani Guinier); and “The Rights To Vote: Some Pessimism About Formalism,” 71 Texas Law Review 1705 (1993). She clerked for Judge Abraham Sofaer in the Southern District of New York and Justice Harry Blackmun before serving as assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she specialized in voting rights and employment discrimination litigation. Professor Karlan received her B.A., M.A. (history), and J.D. from Yale.
GOODWIN LIU is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. He is also co-director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, a multidisciplinary think tank on civil rights law and policy. Professor Liu’s recent work includes “Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights,” 61 Stanford Law Review 203 (2008); “‘History Will Be Heard’: An Appraisal of the Seattle/Louisville Decision,” 2 Harvard Law & Policy Review 53 (2008); “Education, Equality, and National Citizenship,” 116 Yale Law Journal 330 (2006); and “Interstate Inequality in Educational Opportunity,” 81 New York University Law Review 2044 (2006). Before joining the UC Berkeley faculty, Professor Liu was an appellate litigator at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and has also served as special assistant to the Deputy Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education. Professor Liu, a Rhodes Scholar, received his B.S. from Stanford University, M.A. from Oxford University, and J.D. from Yale Law School.
CHRISTOPHER H. SCHROEDER is Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University School of Law, where he also serves as director of the Program in Public Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, especially the separation of powers, and environmental law. Recent publications include a leading environmental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy (6th ed. 2009) (with Robert Percival, Alan Miller and James Leape), Presidential Power Stories (2008) (with Curtis A. Bradley), and A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment (2005) (co-edited with Rena Steinzor), a project of the Center for Progressive Reform. Professor Schroeder has served as acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was responsible for legal advice to the Attorney General, the Executive Office of the President, and other executive branch agencies on a broad range of issues, including separation of powers, other constitutional issues, and matters of statutory interpretation and administrative law. He has also served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is of counsel to O’Melveny & Myers. He received his B.A. from Princeton University, M.Div. from Yale University, and J.D. from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review.

 

 

It Is a Constitution We are Expounding

 

 

 

LAURENCE H. TRIBE is a Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School

Named one of Harvard’s few University Professors in 2004 and holder of its constitutional law chair since 1980, Laurence H. Tribe is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2000 was voted Harvard’s best law teacher. A mathematics summa cum laude with numerous honorary degrees, Tribe helped draft such constitutions as South Africa’s and Russia’s and has published 115 books and articles, including a constitutional law treatise more often cited than any other post-1950 legal text. Tribe’s many appellate arguments, most of them pro bono and 60 percent of them successful, include 36 in the Supreme Court.

 

PAMELA HARRIS is currently Of Counsel in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office, where she works on Supreme Court and appellate litigation. Pam's practice focuses on public interest litigation. In July, she will leave to become the Executive Director of the Georgetown Law Center's Supreme Court Institute.

Pam is a Lecturer at the Harvard Law School, as Co-Director of the Harvard Law School Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Clinic. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches a first-year class in Criminal Justice. Pam is a frequent speaker on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the legal profession. She has spoken recently before such groups as the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society, the ACLU, the Constitution Project, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Pam has also mediated cases as part of the DC Circuit’s mediation program. Before joining the firm, Pam was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she specialized in constitutional criminal procedure and the law of church and state. From 1993 to 1996, Pam worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the US Department of Justice.

KARL THOMPSON is counsel in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office, practicing in the International, Appellate, and Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practices. His practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration and appellate litigation. In his international practice, Karl represents major corporations and other clients in cases involving foreign parties, foreign transactions or occurrences, international law, and related U.S. laws and legal doctrines such as the Alien Tort Statute, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, and the doctrine of forum non conveniens. He also represents clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including mediation and arbitration. In connection with his appellate practice, Karl has authored numerous briefs in state and federal appellate court, including petitions for certiorari, amicus briefs, and merits briefs in the United States Supreme Court. He has also argued cases in numerous state and federal courts, including multiple cases in the federal courts of appeal. Karl also assists with the teaching at the Harvard Law School Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Clinic.

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