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...Elena Kagan, who received tenure in 2001 after only two years as a visiting professor at HLS, has been chosen to replace current HLS Dean Robert C. Clark when he steps down this June, after 14 years at the helm...
...This is a historic day for Harvard Law School,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said to a crowd of cheering HLS students, faculty and administrators yesterday as he officially announced Kagan as the next dean. “I am absolutely confident that she will be a great dean of Harvard Law School...
...Kagan came to Harvard from Washington, D.C., where she worked in the Clinton Administration with Summers as the deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. She was also nominated to serve on the U.S. Appeals Court for Washington, D.C.—the most coveted judicial appointment after the Supreme Court—but the Senate failed to act on her nomination before it expired...
...appointment of Kagan to the deanship marks a new beginning in the history of the traditionally staid Law School, which only began admitting women 50 years...
After graduating from HLS in 1986, Kagan clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and briefly worked as a practicing lawyer before accepting a teaching position at the University of Chicago...