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...policy makers beyond just the legal academy.” Law School administrators yesterday lauded the Law & Policy Review’s move to bring new ideas to campus. “There can be no better illustration of our intellectual diversity,” Law School Dean Elena Kagan wrote in an e-mail, noting that another student publication is associated with the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization. The Law & Policy Review, she added, “is clearly going to be a wonderful addition to the best set of student-run journals in the nation...
Disappointed Kagan loyalists honored their Dean with a party on Feb. 13. Law school student and Kagan supporter Samuel Flaks says the event “was partly a consolation prize, but really students just talked about all the great things she’s done for this school and about how much they love...
Kagan’s accomplishments were celebrated at the party: The room was decorated with skates and tampons to recognize the skating rink she arranged for and the sanitary products she put in bathrooms. Kagan is also praised for the comfortable chairs she put in the library and the coffee she brought to students with early classes. To first- year law school student Jacob K. Jou, it is these “little things” that set her apart as an administrator...
...addition to providing quality recreational space and helping students engage in proper hygiene, Kagan has also won accolades for the intellectual environment she has created at the Law School. Charles C. Simpkins, another student, appreciates Kagan’s role in “diversify[ing] the law school both intellectually and in terms of minorities...
Simpkins, however, is not entirely convinced by all the Kagan hype. “It would have been great to see how she would have dealt with what some people have coined ‘the imperial presidency,’” Simpkins says. “But there’s got to be something wrong with her. Otherwise she’s just too perfect...