Kathleen Sullivan

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Kathleen Sullivan
Born August 20, 1955 (1955-08-20) (age 52)
Nationality Flag of the United States United States
Fields Constitutional law
Alma mater Cornell University
University of Oxford
Harvard Law School
Academic advisors Laurence Tribe

Kathleen Marie Sullivan (born August 20, 1955), one of America's leading scholars in constitutional law, is a professor at the Stanford Law School and currently practices appellate litigation at Quinn Emanuel Urquart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, a law firm in California.

Born in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, 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 a leading text in the field,[2] Constitutional Law, with the late 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.[3][4][5]

She failed the July 2005 California bar exam, leading many to question either the usefulness of the exam or her preparation for it.[3][5] She retook it in February 2006 and passed.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nancy Waring. "Congratulations Dean Sullivan", Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer 1999. 
  2. ^ "Official Biography of Kathleen M. Sullivan", Stanford Law School. 
  3. ^ a b James Bandler and Nathan Koppel. "Raising the Bar: Even Top Lawyers Fail California Exam", Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2005, p. A1. 
  4. ^ Joan Biskupic. "The next president could tip high court", USA Today, September 29, 2004. 
  5. ^ a b Chris Lin. "Sullivan failed Calif. bar exam", The Stanford Daily, January 10, 2006, p. 1. 
  6. ^ State Bar of California: Kathleen M. Sullivan

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