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...Adrian Vermeule ’90 of the University of Chicago, and Mark V. Tushnet ’67 of Georgetown. In addition, Kagan confirmed in a February interview that a full-time offer has been made to the University of Chicago’s Cass R. Sunstein ’75, a very influential administrative and constitutional law scholar.Expanding the Law School’s faculty has been a hallmark of Kagan’s tenure as dean. Michael A. Armini, the school’s spokesman, said that the dean realizes “there will inevitably...
...revolution in federalism, leading the court in a series of decisions that returned powers to the states that Congress had tried to vest in Washington. That quiet overhaul of authority earned Rehnquist a place as "one of the most important figures in the entire history of American law," says Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago...
...which the Founders denied the National Government and reposed in the States, than the suppression of violent crime and vindication of its victims." Partly because of Rehnquist's reorientation of the federalist balance, "he is one of the most important figures in the entire history of American law," says Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago...
That down-to-earth quality meant that O'Connor's opinions tended to be narrower and more case specific than those of her fellow Justices, her reasoning less sweeping and ideological. "She was the court's leading minimalist," says Cass Sunstein, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, "taking one case at a time, distrusting broad rules and abstract theories...
...Ching and the CASS academics were not the only detainees to make headlines. Police passed to the prosecutor's office last week the investigation into Zhao Yan, a Beijing researcher for the New York Times who has been held incommunicado since September. Zhao is under investigation for both fraud and leaking state secrets, but his lawyer has not yet seen details of the police reports. In April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details...