Michael J Klarman

Biographic Data

ID5182399
NAMEMichael J Klarman
GIVEN NAMESMichael J
FAMILY NAMEKlarman
SIGNATUREKLARMAN M J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS61
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX2

  • Has the Supreme Court Been More a Friend or Foe to African Americans

    Open AccessMichael J KlarmanARTICLEDaedalus2011

    This essay challenges the conventional wisdom that regards the Supreme Court as a heroic defender of the rights of racial minorities against majority oppression. It argues that over the course of American history, the Court, more often than not, has been a regressive force on racial issues. Klarman draws three lessons from his survey of the Court's racial jurisprudence: (1) the composition of the Court influences whether its racial jurisprudence …

  • Why Massive Resistance?

    Michael J KlarmanCHAPTERMassive Resistance2005

    This chapter assesses how the forces of massive resistance overwhelmed more liberal opinion on racial integration. It stresses that those white southerners who were opposed to the Brown decision were more politically committed than were those who accepted or supported it. It adds that die-hard segregationists used the apparatus of local and state government to destroy political dissent among the southern whites. It highlights the importance of le…

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Open AccessMichael J KlarmanCHAPTERFrom the Grassroots to the…2004

  • Judicial Power and Civil Rights Reconsidered

    David E Bernstein, Ilya Somin et al.ARTICLEThe Yale Law Journal2004

    Michael Klarman’s “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality” is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on both the history of the civil rights struggle and judicial power more generally. Klarman argues that for much of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court was very reluctant to rule in favor of African American civil rights claimants, and had little impact when it did. Klarman is righ…

  • From Jim Crow To Civil Rights

    Michael J KlarmanBOOKFrom Jim Crow to Civil Rights2004

    Do Supreme Court decisions matter? In 1896 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that railroad segregation laws were permissible under the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1954 the Court𠆘s decision in Brown v. the Board of Education held that the same constitutional provision invalidated statutes segregating public schools How great an impact did judicial rulings such as Plessy and Brown have? How much did such Court decisions infl…

  • Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s

    Michael J KlarmanARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 3

    In recent years scholars, primarily political scientists and law professors, have questioned the capacity of courts to produce significant social change. Most notably, Professor Gerald N. Rosenberg has declared the notion that courts can reform society a “hollow hope.” Rosenberg shows that Brown v. Board of Education (1954) brought about very little school desegregation until Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation to implement the Cour…

  • Quiet Revolution in the South

    Michael J Klarman, Chandler Davidson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1963–1990. Ed. By Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xii, 503 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-691-03247-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-691-02108-2.) Get access Michael J. Klarman Michael J. Klarman University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…

  • Brown, Racial Change, and the Civil Rights Movement

    Open AccessMichael J KlarmanARTICLEVirginia Law Review1994

  • How Brown Changed Race Relations

    Michael J KlarmanARTICLEJournal of American History1994Cited by: 53

    Journal Article How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis Get access Michael J. Klarman Michael J. Klarman professor of law and Class of 1966 Research Professor University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 81–118, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080994 Published: 01 June 1994

  • Constitutional Fact/Constitutional Fiction

    Michael J Klarman, Bruce AckermanARTICLEStanford Law Review1992Cited by: 1

  • Parliamentary Reversal of the Osborne Judgement

    Open AccessMichael J KlarmanARTICLEThe Historical Journal1989Cited by: 1References: 3

    On 21 December 1909 the house of lords rendered judgement in the Osborne case. The lords' decision, at a minimum, prohibited trade union contributions to the Labour Party, and therefore threatened with destruction the newly-formed party whose income depended almost entirely upon trade union support. The legal basis upon which a majority of the law lords rested their ruling was that trade union political activity was ultra vires – that is, beyond …

  • Osborne

    Michael J Klarman, MICHAEL KLARMANARTICLEThe English Historical Review1988Cited by: 1

    Osborne: a judgment gone too far? Get access MICHAEL KLARMAN MICHAEL KLARMAN University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVI, January 1988, Pages 21–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVI.21 Published: 01 January 1988

  • Mistrials Arising from Prosecutorial Error

    Michael J KlarmanARTICLEStanford Law Review1982