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Meanwhile, Kagan said that the Law School is taking preliminary steps toward establishing a joint-degree program with Harvard’s Graduate School of Design—and perhaps with MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning as well. But she said that the process is “still in the talking stages,” and she doesn’t expect the schools to finalize arrangements by next year—“unless we’re superhuman...
...joint degree program between the Law School and FAS has been in the works since even before Kagan became dean of the school two years ago. “I have been the lucky recipient of a lot of planning that was done under” former HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, Kagan said...
...Kagan emphasized that “a Ph.D. is in no sense a prerequisite for us. And I don’t think it should be.” But she added that “there’s no doubt that law schools have been strengthened by having people on our faculties who have deep knowledge of another discipline...
Specifically, Kagan said that scholars with J.D.s as well as Ph.D.s had sparked the growth of the law and economics discipline, which examines how rules affect behavior and assesses laws in terms of their economic efficiency...
...Kagan noted that one of the founders of the discipline, Judge Richard A. Posner of the 7th federal circuit, does not have an economics degree, although among the movement’s leaders, “that’s rare...