Word: deanship
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...sacrificing much of a summer to complete her predecessors’ unfinished issues.Nearly 20 years later, Kagan rose to lead the Law School, another institution plagued by infighting and discontent. Though it had begun to experience a revival, the school still faced major unresolved issues when she assumed the deanship in 2003.The peace and institutional reform during Kagan’s tenure as dean of the Law School have marked a significant shift from the ideological battles in the 1980s and early 1990s, when a warring faculty became symbolic of the school’s larger problems.Kagan embarked...
Jackson, whose research focuses on financial regulation, has been a member of the Law School’s faculty since 1989 and was associate dean for research and research programs from 2001 to 2003. After Kagan rose to the deanship in 2003, he took over the role of vice dean for budget until 2006. Jackson currently serves as the chair of the Law School’s lateral appointments committee...
...help advance this nation’s commitment to the rule of law at what I think is a critical time in our history.”Kagan announced that she plans to take a leave of absence from the faculty of the Law School and resign the deanship, which she has held since 2003. During her tenure as dean, she has drawn acclaim for bridging ideological divides among the faculty, poaching several renowned professors from rival law schools, and ushering in a slew of student-oriented reforms.University President Drew G. Faust lauded Kagan in an e-mailed statement, saying...
Kagan announced that she plans to take a leave of absence from the faculty of the Law School and resign the deanship, which she has held since 2003. During her tenure as dean, she has drawn acclaim from some circles for bridging ideological divides among the faculty, poaching several renowned professors from rival law schools, and ushering in a slew of student-oriented reforms...
...visionary. “I am thrilled that he is returning to Harvard Law School and assuming the directorship of the [Safra] Center to advance those efforts,” she said. Kagan has aggressively pursued the lateral hiring market during her tenure, snagging 20 tenured professors since her deanship began in 2003, compared to 18 in the preceding two decades. Last year alone, the Law School landed six tenured professors, including then-University of Chicago professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most-cited American law professor. Lessig, who was once a researcher at Harvard?...