Michael Klarman

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American historian

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captionKlarman speaking at Harvard Law Class Day 2010
birth_nameMichael J. Klarman
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nationalityAmerican
educationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA, MA)
Stanford Law School (JD)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
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fatherHerbert E. Klarman
relativesSeth Klarman (brother)
awardsBancroft Prize (2005)
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Early life and education

Klarman grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, in a Jewish family. His father, Herbert E. Klarman, was a public health economist. He is the brother of investor Seth Klarman.

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. His dissertation was titled "The Osborne Judgment: A Legal/Historical Analysis". 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.

Scholarship

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Klarman specializes in the constitutional history of race. 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.

Awards

Works

References

References

  1. "Professor Michael Klarman delivers address on the Supreme Court and race at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences".
  2. "Login • ProcessWire • oah.org".
  3. "Michael Klarman {{!}} Corcoran Department of History".
  4. valueinvestingpro. (2010-01-30). "Interview with Seth Klarman, MBA 1982 -Born to be an Entreprenuer - Harvard Business School.flv".
  5. (2025-07-25). "The Baupost Group, LLC: Private Company Information – Bloomberg".
  6. Klarman, Michael. "A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship".
  7. [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.
  8. "WSC {{!}} Alumni {{!}} News {{!}} Message from the Director".
  9. "Thesis: The Osborne judgment : a legal/historical analysis".
  10. Kevin Zhou. (January 24, 2008). "Constitutional Law Professor Klarman Joins HLS". The Harvard Crimson.
  11. [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.
  12. Scott, Janny. (March 23, 2008). "What Politicians say When They Talk About Race". The New York Times.
  13. Klarman, Michael J. (May 1991). "The Puzzling Resistance to Political Process Theory". ''Virginia Law Review''. '''77''' (4): 747–832. [[Doi (identifier). doi]]:10.2307/1073297. [[JSTOR (identifier). JSTOR]] 1073297.

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