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...AFTERTHOUGHTDespite the structural problems that Law School faculty and administrators freely acknowledge, most negative impressions of the Law School from both former and current students seem to com from a vague sense of neglect and disregard from professors and administrators, rather than specific grievances.Law School Professor Carol S. Steiker ’82, who served as president of the Law Review when Kagan was supervising editor, says the competitive atmosphere was a source of discontent among her fellow students. As a result, only a small subset of the student body, such as many members of the elite Law Review, felt...
...said. In 1979, 12 percent of African American men would be incarcerated at some point in their lives. By 1999, that number had increased to 20 percent. “Prison has become a normal life event,” Western said. Law professor Carol Steiker said that up to 5 percent of prisoners on death row are wrongfully convicted.“The hunt goes on still for the executed innocent,” said Steiker, who added that 129 prisoners have been exonerated from death row since 1976.Western went on to assert that time spent in prison reduces...
Professor of Law Carol Steiker said that even as Marshall was, physically, the “biggest fat cat” on the Court, financially he was the “littlest fat cat.” Marshall’s relatively modest means, Steiker said, inspired her to become a public defender rather than make more money at a private law firm...
...Steiker noted that few women graduate in the top 10 percent of the class...
...class while making all women selected for the Law Review wonder whether they would have been selected absent such a program (and making other Review editors, as well as judges and other future employers, wonder the same thing),” HLS Professor and Review faculty advisor Carol S. Steiker told the Record...