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...sense of humor makes her an engaging personality who can connect well with a diverse group of people, Steiker says. During the Senate confirmation hearing, Kagan elicited chuckles from the panel by calling herself a “pipsqueak” clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whom she called “a giant of the law.”“It’s almost an anti-charisma kind of charisma, but it’s very, very charming,” Steiker says.When Kagan was passed over for the University presidency two years...
...Born in 1895, Houston served as the NAACP Litigation Director, pioneering a novel legal strategy for confronting the institionalized racism of the United States’ Jim Crow Laws. As dean of Howard University Law School, Houston trained a generation of young black lawyers, including future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. In 2005, HLS established the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice to honor the great civil rights leaders of the 20th century. The Institute’s founder, Law School professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Houston’s son, Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr., were both...
...English teacher and senior year academic advisor, “but he also had time to be a friend and an amusing conversationalist ... but he had a hell of a lot of responsibilities.”Upon graduation from Harvard Law School in 1978, Sunstein clerked for Thurgood Marshall and later became a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he befriended Obama. Last year he left the University of Chicago to return to Cambridge and took up a post advising Obama during his presidential campaign. David A. Schkade, a professor at the University of California, San Diego...
Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the committee, challenged Kagan over memos she had written while clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall that asserted that religious organizations tend to promote their own beliefs via government-sponsored social programs...
...been completely secured, Oliveira said. He added that the donation was unaffected by current economic conditions and will be divided between funding the professorship and related activities, though administrators have not yet determined how the funds will be divided. Until Tribe retires, the professorship will be called the Thurgood Marshall Professorship of Constitutional Law. Upon his retirement the position will be renamed the Laurence H. Tribe Professorship of Constitutional Law. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, is the second most cited constitutional scholar in the country and garnered increased media attention during the past two years as a result...