--- title: Kathleen Clark | TIME description: Clark is an ethics lawyer and Professor of Law at Washington University; her article, “The Lawyers Who Mistook a President for their Client,” will appear in the Indiana Law Review. canonical: https://time.com/author/kathleen-clark/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/kathleen-clark/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kathleen Clark ## Kathleen Clark _Clark is an ethics lawyer and Professor of Law at Washington University; her_ [_article_](http://kathleenclark.law/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-02-07-Clark-The-Lawyers-Who-Mistook-A-President-for-their-Client-w-Appendices.pdf)_,_ [_“The Lawyers Who Mistook a President for their Client,”_](http://kathleenclark.law/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-02-07-Clark-The-Lawyers-Who-Mistook-A-President-for-their-Client-w-Appendices.pdf) _will appear in the_ Indiana Law Review_._ ## Kathleen Clark *  May 1, 2019 ### [The Justice Department Suddenly Changed Its Mind About the Constitution to Defend Trump’s Businesses](https://time.com/5581308/trump-emoluments-justice-department/) In the past two years, the Department has contradicted its entire history [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kathleen-clark/","name":"Kathleen Clark"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kathleen-clark/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kathleen-clark/"},"name":"Kathleen Clark","jobTitle":null,"description":"Clark is an ethics lawyer and Professor of Law at Washington University; her article, “The Lawyers Who Mistook a President for their Client,” will appear in the Indiana Law Review.","url":"https://time.com/author/kathleen-clark/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```