Professor Klarman will take the affirmative position that we are in a constitutional crisis.
Professor Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of legal history at Harvard Law School, where he joined the faculty in 2008. He received his BA and MA (political theory) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980, his JD from Stanford Law School in 1983, and his DPhil in legal history from the University of Oxford in 1988. At Oxford, he was a Marshall Scholar. After law school, Klarman clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1983–84). He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987 and served there until 2008 as the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History.
He has written various well-received and widely read works, including From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality to Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement, Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History, and From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. In 2016, he wrote The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the US Constitution.
The moderator for the debate will be Stephen Garvey, A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, who writes and teaches in the areas of capital punishment, criminal law, and the philosophy of criminal law. After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor Garvey clerked for the Honorable Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then practiced at the Washington, D.C. firm of Covington & Burling. He joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1994. Garvey received his MPhil in Politics from Oxford University (University College), Oxford, England, in 1989, and a BA in Political Science from Colgate University in 1987.
It is a great pleasure to return to Colgate University and to join these two esteemed academics for this event.
