Kathleen Sullivan is a partner at LA law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and former dean of Stanford Law School. Born in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan in 1955, Sullivan graduated from Cornell University in 1976 and University of Oxford in 1978. After earning her JD from Harvard Law School in 1981, she began to practice appellate law, later becoming an associate law professor at Harvard from 1984 until 1992, when she accepted a teaching position at Stanford Law. She later served as Stanford Law Dean from 1991 to 2004, when she left to join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, later becoming their national Appellate Chair. Sullivan was interviewed for the documentary “America’s Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition” and in this interview, she discusses the legacy of Prohibition and her role in the Granholm v. Heald case. This interview is part of a series of interviews from America’s Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition that were donated to the Bancroft library.