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Rather than Summers, Dean of HLS Elena Kagan should chair the ad hoc committees. She has the experience to identify quality law professors; in helping guide a committee of outside experts, she will be a more informed partner in the process as the appointment directly relates to HLS. Additionally, Kagan has more at stake than Summers to ensure that newly tenured faculty will work well at HLS and not simply fill the central administration’s larger political goals. Most importantly, this change in the tenure process must lead to an advancement of transparency. Otherwise, any possible internal bias...
...Harvard Law School is not a member of this organization, but I share its commitment to nondiscrimination,” Kagan said in the statement. “I look forward to the day when all Americans—regardless of sexual orientation—can serve their country with honor and distinction...
...first HLS reunion of gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgendered alumni on Saturday night, Kagan further addressed the issue of military recruitment on the HLS campus. “The military policy that we at the law school are overlooking is terribly wrong, terribly wrong in depriving gay men and lesbians of the opportunity to serve their country,” she said. “The need to create this exception makes me and makes almost all the members of the Harvard Law School community profoundly unhappy...
...student and president of HLS Lambda Amanda C. Goad said that Kagan has told her that the law school’s participation in military recruitment was not her decision...
...Former Dean Clark and Dean Kagan express how much they disagree with this policy, but they are not stepping up to the plate when there is an opportunity,” Goad said. “It makes us feel like they don’t really care. It feels very painful as a student...