Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to Prof. Bernard Grofman

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April 20, 1988

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  • Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to Prof. Bernard Grofman, 1988. 7210c9b8-ec92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/51e0d739-d77b-4959-a118-5be8061f38e3/correspondence-from-pamela-karlan-to-prof-bernard-grofman. Accessed June 01, 2025.

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    April 20, 1988

Professor Bernard Grofman
University of California
School of Social Sciences
Irvine, California 92717

Dear Bernie:

Thanks so much for sending me the two articles.
You have been very much in my thoughts this past week.
Well . . . , not exactly you, but the two books you
edited with Arend Lijphart, selections from which we
sent to Judge Thompson in the Dillard limited-vote
litigation. I’m sorry we didn't have the Macro
Election Systems piece with us at trial to put in the
bundle of scholarly articles. Its stress on
majoritarian v. nonmajoritarian systems in Part II--as
opposed to proportional, semi-proportional, and
plurality systems-—would have been a helpful supplement
to the Lijphart typology in Democracies, particularly
given the premium on avoiding calling anything PR.

Anyway, I’m sending you a decision by Judge
Thompson that I thought might interest you because of
its discussion of the "sufficiently compact" language
from Gingles. (The discussion is on pages 15—17.) It
also ties in with your discussion of compactness in the
UCLA piece. I thought Table 2’s note that Alabama
itself does not require compactness was particularly
interesting.

Finally, Peyton McCrary and I have a review of
Abby Thernstrom coming out next month. Some of the
stuff we discussed at dinner in San Antonio is in it,
so I’ll be sure to send you a copy. I shall be leaving
sometime this summer to begin teaching at the
University of Virginia Law School-—procedure and voting
rights. I hope to do some real writing on voting
rights then.

S'nce ely,

Pa ela S. Karlan

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