Courts, Social Change, and Political Backlash

On March 31, 2011, Professor of Law, Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s thirty-first annual Philip A. Hart Lecture: “Courts, Social Change, and Political Backlash.” Included here are the speaker\u27s notes from this lecture. Michael Klarman is the Kirkland \u26 Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. Formerly, he was the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of History, and the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Klarman specializes in the constitutional history of race. Klarman holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a D.Phil. from Oxford University and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, which are primarily in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional history. His book, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2004), received the Bancroft Prize