Pamela Karlan

Pamela Karlan is a professor at Stanford Law School, where she teaches constitutional law, voting rights, and election law. She co-founded the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, which gives students hands-on experience representing clients before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pamela Karlan served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice starting in 2014, during the Obama administration. In this role she focused on enforcing federal voting rights laws and civil rights protections before returning to Stanford Law School.

Yes, through the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Karlan has argued multiple cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including significant voting rights and election law disputes. She is one of the relatively few women to have argued before the Court on multiple occasions, and her cases have addressed issues such as the Voting Rights Act and redistricting.

Pamela Karlan is best known for her expertise in voting rights, election law, and constitutional law, areas in which she has both litigated and published extensively. Her scholarship and advocacy have focused on issues including minority voting access, partisan gerrymandering, and the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.