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Harvard Law School laid off 12 staff members last week as part of its effort to reduce the size of its workforce by about 10 percent, acting Dean Howell E. Jackson announced in an e-mail to the Law School community last Tuesday...
...temporary replacement for former Law School Dean Elena Kagan, who stepped down after being confirmed as U.S. Solicitor General, Jackson took an unusually active role in shaping the Law School during his brief three month deanship. Kagan departed in March without making any budgetary announcements to the Law School community, and due to the tight budget approval timeline, the decision fell to Jackson to move forward with involuntary workforce cuts...
...mail, Jackson said that although Martha Minow, the newly appointed Law School dean who assumes her position July 1, was not involved in the decision-making process, he expects her to ease smoothly into her new role...
...have a very strong senior administrative staff at the Law School," he wrote, "and I am sure they will do a terrific job supporting the new dean...
CORRECTION: An earlier online version of the July 1 article "Law School Lays Off 12" gave an incorrect middle initial for the acting dean of the Law School. His name is Howell E. Jackson, not Howell L. Jackson...