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...phone interview yesterday, Kagan didn’t entirely disagree with Leiter, saying that “no single piece of [the curricular review] is completely unprecedented...
...Harvard Law faculty unanimously approved sweeping revisions to the school’s first-year curriculum in a closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon, professors confirmed last night. The vote marked the culmination of two years of work by Dean Elena Kagan and the review’s chief architect, Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, as well as several other professors and administrators...
...School officials—including Kagan and Minow—did not respond to requests for comment last evening. But Petrie Professor of Law Einer R. Elhauge ’82 said the century-old first-year curriculum covering traditional common law topics—contracts, torts, property, civil procedure, and criminal law—will be constricted, and courses on policy (“Legislation and Regulation”) and international law (“International Law and Problems and Theories”) will be added...
...swift approval of the review—conducted mostly out of sight and with no public dissent among faculty members—also bodes well for Kagan, who is considered a leading candidate for Harvard’s presidency. By comparison, the undergraduate curricular review at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has dragged on for four years—with no clear end in sight...
...mail sent to the Law School community after the Supreme Court’s decision in March, Kagan wrote that she hopes students and professors would “accept the Court’s invitation to express their views clearly and forcefully regarding the military’s discriminatory employment policy...