Word: gerken
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...rising star at Harvard Law School and one of the nation’s foremost experts in election law announced yesterday that she has accepted an offer to teach at Yale Law School beginning this fall.Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken has garnered praise for both her teaching ability—she was the first junior professor to win the prestigious Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence—as well as her scholarship on voting law, diversity, and the role of groups in the democratic process. A graduate of Princeton University and the University...
...Texas, orchestrated by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), succeeded in picking up five Democratic seats this past November. While politically motivated redistricting schemes have long been de rigeur, the timing of DeLay’s actions have set a dangerous precedent. Assistant Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken explains, “The rules were, fight it out once a decade, but then let it lie for ten years. DeLay’s tactic was so shocking because it got rid of this old, informal agreement.” If the leaders of majority parties in other states...
Harvard currently has only one female legal scholar on a tenure track—Assistant Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken...
...Gerken dismissed the act as “toothless,” saying it provides “incentives” rather than strict orders...
...Brien said the project had its genesis at a recent Law School panel on voter participation, where a panelist suggested the idea. O’Brien raised the idea with electoral scholar Gerken in late January, she said, and later discussed it with Tribe, who teaches the course on constitutional law that both she and May are currently taking...