Manheim, Karl M.

Karl Manheim has been on the full-time faculty since 1984. He was co-director of the Program for Law & Technology at the California Institute of Technology and Loyola Law School. He has also taught at UCLA Law School (2017), the University of Southern California Law School (1996), the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (1992), the University of Bologna (2007, 2010) and the University of Aix-Marseille (2012-15). In 2007, he was special counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. Before joining the full-time faculty, he was a Visiting Professor at Loyola, and in the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office.

Professor Manheim teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Technology.

Selected Scholarship

Public Service

Manheim is a volunteer attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, and works with other civil rights and public interest organizations. He has litigated cases at every level of state and federal courts, and has argued several significant cases in the California Supreme Court, including Proposition 103 (insurance regulation). He has handled cases in civil rights and civil liberties, environmental law, takings, municipal law and federalism.

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