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Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan has spent her first half-decade in office shaking up her venerable legal institution, convincing her faculty to approve major revisions to the Law School’s curriculum while raising gobs of cash and laying the groundwork for a large physical upgrade to the school’s campus...
...while Kagan has mastered both complex changes (the new grading system) and simple ones (free coffee and a tiny-but-cute ice rink), none of her reforms has rippled as widely outside of academia as her move to force Harvard back into the lateral hiring market. Indeed, in her half-decade in office, Kagan has poached 20 tenured professors, among them University of Chicago professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most-cited law professor in the United States. Last year alone, six tenured professors accepted offers to come to Harvard...
...Starter Wife USA, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.; two-hour premiere Oct. 10 at 9 p.m. E.T. At last, a Gossip Girl for the old people! Reprising her role from the smash miniseries, Debra Messing is author and recent divorce Molly Kagan, trying to keep herself and her daughter afloat in a sea of affluence populated by smarmy L.A. sharks. Predictable but pithy, Wife takes itself no more seriously than the Hollywood-haves it skewers...
Relatively few second-year students attended the meeting—in part because many were interviewing for summer jobs—even though Kagan said she felt most uncertain about the grading system they will use. According to over 100 feedback e-mails solicited by the Law School’s student government, opinions of second-year students remain mixed...
...We’ll try to give you an answer as soon as we can,” Kagan said to the students...