Kathleen Sullivan

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Kathleen M. Sullivan (born August 20, 1955), scholar in constitutional law, is a professor at Stanford Law School and currently practices law at Quinn Emanuel Urquart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, a law firm in California.

Sullivan was the dean of Stanford Law School from 1999 to 2004. She was a professor of law at Harvard Law School from 1984 to 1993. She graduated from Cornell University in 1976, graduated as a Marshall Scholar from Oxford in 1978 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1981, where her mentor, Laurence Tribe, called her "the most extraordinary student I had ever had." [1].

Sullivan's expertise is in the area of constitutional law. She is the author of the leading text in the field, Constitutional Law, with Professor Gerald Gunther and, according to the National Journal, is speculated by many to be in line for the Supreme Court should a Democrat be elected President.

She took and failed the July 2005 California bar exam, leading many to question the usefulness of the exam as well as her preparation for it, according to the Wall Street Journal.[2]. She retook the exam in February 2006 and passed.[3]