Rate Professor Karen Tani

Academic Background

A.B., Harvard University; J.D., University of Michigan; Ph.D. in History, University of Pennsylvania.

Research Interests

Legal history; welfare law; constitutional law; civil rights; administrative law.

Appointments

Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Director, Legal History Consortium.

Awards

SIFR Visiting Fellowship, New York University; AHA Prize for best article in legal history.

Publications

• States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935–1972, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Articles in Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Law and History Review.

Additional Contributions

Editor, Law and History Review; organizer of legal history workshops.