1 | Name: | Ms. Kathleen M. Sullivan | |
Institution: | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | ||
Year Elected: | 2002 | ||
Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | ||
Residency: | Resident | ||
Living? : | Living | ||
Birth Date: | 1955 | ||
Educated at Cornell and Oxford Universities, Kathleen Sullivan received her J.D. degree in 1981 from Harvard University Law School where she won the Ames Moot Court Competition and the George Leisure Award for Excellence in Advocacy. She served for nearly a decade on the faculty of Harvard Law School before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. She was a former Dean, and the Stanley Morrison Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University Law School until 2009. In 2009 she joined the law firm Quinn Emanuel as partner and Chair of the firm's national Appellate Practice. Professor Sullivan is viewed by many as a leading teacher and scholar of constitutional law today. She is the author of numerous articles in the field and co-author with the late Gerald Gunther (APS, 1981) of the classic casebook Constitutional Law. She is in demand as a commentator on constitutional issues - in The New York Times and other publications' Op-Ed pages and on national media programs such as the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and ABC's Nightline. A lucid and incisive lecturer, she is the recipient of teaching prizes at both Harvard and Stanford Universities. She was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2002. |