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After finishing the clerkships and spending two years at a top Washington law firm, Kagan joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, where she stayed full-time for four years before taking a job in the Clinton administration. It was there—while serving as the deputy director of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council—that she first came into contact with Lawrence H. Summers when the two worked on tobacco legislation...
...When Kagan became the dean of the Law School in 2003—just two years after becoming a tenured professor—she took the helm of a school whose divisive ideological battles had largely been put to rest, but where many felt the curriculum had atrophied and a number of fresh faculty appointments were needed to replace a graying faculty...
...though the fights over faculty hiring were largely a thing of the past, the Law School suffered from an “inability to make the large number of appointments it had to make with an aging faculty” until Kagan became dean, according to Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried...
...three and a half years, Kagan poached 10 professors, bringing to the Law School top scholars in fields such as comparative constitutional law, international and national security law, and the intersection of law and religion. And the new hires are diverse in their political views: of the 10, there are several conservatives, including Jack L. Goldsmith and John F. Manning...
...Kagan worked to expand the faculty, she also tapped Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow and a committee of professors to renew the Law School’s century-old first-year curriculum. Kagan often hosted informal dinner meetings at her home to discuss the curricular proposals...