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Educational and Professional Background

SB, magna cum laude, Bradley University, 1971
JD, Northeastern University, 1974
LLM, Harvard Law School, 1978

Karl Manheim is the Loyola director of the Program for Law & Technology at the California Institute of Technology and Loyola Law School. He began teaching at Loyola in 1975; served in the Santa Monica City Attorney's Office from 1980-84; and returned to Loyola in 1984. He has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School (1996) and at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China (1992).

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 rates) and rent control. He has handled cases in civil rights and civil liberties, environmental law, takings, municipal law and federalism.

Manheim is a member of the patent bar.

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Recent Scholarship

"An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy," Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal (2003) (with Lawrence B. Solum)

Op Ed, Forum Column, Los Angeles Daily Journal, September 17, 2003

"At the Crossroads of Law & Technology: Third Annual Symposium Introduction," 35 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (June, 2002)

"Biotechnology: The Legal, Practical and Ethical Implications of Patenting Human Genomes," The Intellectual Property Strategist (Feb, 2002)

"A Structural Theory of the Initiative Power in California," 31 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (1998)

Introduction: "Protection of Constitutional Minorities," Loyola International Law Journal (1997)

"The Re-Energized Tenth Amendment," Los Angeles Lawyer (Summer 1998)

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Courses Taught

Spring 2003
National Security in the 21st Century Seminar

Fall 2002
Communications Law

Spring 2002
Communications Law; Terrorism & the Law

Fall 2001
Biotechnology Law; Civil Rights Litigation

Spring 2001
Biotechnology Seminar; Communications Law

Fall 2000
Constitutional Law I

Spring 2000
Communications Law; Constitutional Law I

Fall 1999
Federal Courts

Fall 1998
Constitutional Law II