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...about the “10 Things I’ve Learned While Covering the Supreme Court.” Beneath the courtroom’s high-ceiling rafters, graduates, friends and family members in Austin Hall’s overflow seating watched as HLS Dean Elena Kagan praised Greenhouse’s coverage. “I don’t read the opinions [of Supreme Court justices] anymore,” said Kagan of Greenhouse’s extensive reporting. She called Greenhouse “the greatest court reporter [and] greatest legal journalist there has ever been...
...candidate, Lee C. Bollinger, who is now president of Columbia.Both Gutmann and Bollinger have said that they intend to stay put.Strong candidates abound at Harvard as well, including Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, who presided over the University’s high-profile diversity initiative last year. Elena Kagan has won over students and faculty at Harvard Law School since her appointment in 2002. And Provost Steven E. Hyman has been an influential force in the University’s administration, with oversight of all of Harvard’s academic programs as well as the expansion into Allston.The...
...Summers’ trusted mentor and predecessor as U.S. Treasury secretary, tried to salvage his protégé’s position. In the days after the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting, he focused his discussion to officials at non-FAS schools, including Law School Dean Elena Kagan...
Rubin did not directly call on Kagan to stand up for Summers, but he did solicit her views and “tacitly” ask for her support, says one person with knowledge of the conversation...
...same year Roberts received his JD—requires recruiters who use the school’s career placement office to pledge that they will not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. The military has refused to sign the pledge. Although Law School Dean Elena Kagan granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy this past September, Harvard has continued to fight the Solomon Amendment. Harvard was not a part of FAIR, the consortium of three-dozen law schools that filed suit. But Harvard’s central administration joined six other universities in filing an amicus brief...