Michael Klarman is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before that, he was the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Virginia School of Law. Klarman is the author of Brown v. Board and the Civil Rights Movement (2007), Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History (2007), and From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2004), which won the 2005 Bancroft Prize in American history.