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...though her name has been floated as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court, some wonder whether the presidency of Harvard may instead be in Kagan??s future...
Robert C. Clark, Kagan??s predecessor who became dean in 1989, inherited a school that had been torn by bitter fights between traditionalist professors and proponents of Critical Legal Studies, a liberal legal philosophy that questioned many of the fundamental premises of law. The clash between “the Crits” and the traditionalists, as well as fierce battles over faculty diversity, had brought faculty hiring to a halt...
...During Kagan??s tenure, the Law School began to court professors at other top law schools for the first time in years...
...mail server. “I went to [the University of Southern California], and we had an electronic situation in place for 25,000 students that was far more effective then what the law school has for 1,500 students,” Basin said. Kagan??—who made improving student life a top priority when she became dean in 2003—announced that she would continue to work to remedy the problem. “I can promise to treat this matter as a key priority and to ensure that our staff turns over every...
...School Dean Elena Kagan??s candidacy may hinge upon her ability to convince search committee members that her leadership style is dramatically different from that of Lawrence H. Summers. Kagan has been praised for her consensus-building successes at the Law School, most notably the unanimous approval of the school’s curricular overhaul this past fall. But she was appointed to her present post by Summers, who appeared to retain the support of many Law School faculty members through the final days of his presidency...