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...Adrian Vermeule ’90 of the University of Chicago, and Mark V. Tushnet ’67 of Georgetown. In addition, Kagan confirmed in a February interview that a full-time offer has been made to the University of Chicago’s Cass R. Sunstein ’75, a very influential administrative and constitutional law scholar.Expanding the Law School’s faculty has been a hallmark of Kagan’s tenure as dean. Michael A. Armini, the school’s spokesman, said that the dean realizes “there will inevitably...
...federalism, leading the court in a series of decisions that returned powers to the states that Congress had tried to vest in Washington. That quiet overhaul of authority earned Rehnquist a place as "one of the most important figures in the entire history of American law," says Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago...
...Founders denied the National Government and reposed in the States, than the suppression of violent crime and vindication of its victims." Partly because of Rehnquist's reorientation of the federalist balance, "he is one of the most important figures in the entire history of American law," says Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago...
That down-to-earth quality meant that O'Connor's opinions tended to be narrower and more case specific than those of her fellow Justices, her reasoning less sweeping and ideological. "She was the court's leading minimalist," says Cass Sunstein, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, "taking one case at a time, distrusting broad rules and abstract theories...
...Connor's history on abortion is a perfect example of the minimalism to which Sunstein refers: Don't throw the precedent out entirely; don't endorse it uncritically, but define the circumstances where it applies. In finely tuned opinions for religion cases, O'Connor measured whether government support of, say, school prayer or vouchers amounted to an unconstitutional "endorsement" of religion. The Pledge of Allegiance's "under God" phrase passed her test; displaying the Ten Commandments on public property did not. That kind of approach is also evident in her handling of affirmative action. O'Connor was as allergic...