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Martha Minow, a long-time Harvard Law School professor, will become the school’s next Dean on July 1, University President Drew G. Faust announced Thursday, ending a secretive search process to replace former Dean Elena Kagan...
...This responsibility falls on the shoulders of a professor with little experience managing large budgets, said several faculty members at the Law School who worry about Minow’s ability to quickly assess and cope with the school’s financial situation. Though she has spent nearly three decades at the school, Minow has had few major budgetary responsibilities during her time there...
...cities that have popped up near urban centers, suburbs on steroids that often grew around a giant mall - like King of Prussia, Pa. (outside Philadelphia), and Schaumburg, Ill. (Chicago). "If Tysons can be retrofitted, then there's great hope for a lot of others," says June Williamson, an associate professor of architecture at the City College of New York and a co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia...
...race and gender differences, the best evidence that she is no radical multiculturalist in the courtroom is found in her judicial opinions. Here she appears to be an incrementalist rather than a radical of any stripe. In a survey of Sotomayor's 226 majority opinions, Stefanie Lindquist, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, found that only 38% could clearly be characterized as liberal, while 49% could clearly be considered conservative. When the criminal cases (in which appellate judges are encouraged by Supreme Court precedent to be relatively pro-prosecution) are taken out of the mix, Sotomayor...
...Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University, is the author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries...