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...Today's decision should weaken that charge, but Mark Tushnet, a professor at Harvard Law School, says these issues may be the next legal battleground for school diversity. "School systems are going to try to achieve these (diversity) goals," he explains, "and they'll use proxies, and it will be litigated." And that means the Supreme Court will have yet another school integration case on its hands before we really know what schools can do to achieve "true racial equality...
...said, adding that Feldman is an “accomplished and highly original scholar.” Barron noted that Feldman’s hiring comes on the heels of “another comparative constitutionalist”—Cromwell Professor of Law Mark V. Tushnet ’67, who was hired last year. Although Feldman has never been a permanent professor at Harvard, his ties to the University run deep. He is a native Cantabrigian and served as a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows from 1998 to 2001 after finishing a Rhodes Scholarship...
...School’s aggressive hiring is also due to the large number of faculty who will be retiring in the coming years. This year alone the Law School has hired five tenured professors from other universities: Bruce H. Mann from the University of Pennsylvania, Mark V. Tushnet ’67 from Georgetown, George G. Triantis from the University of Virginia, Gerald L. Neuman ’73 from Columbia, and C. Adrian Vermeule ’90 from the University of Chicago. Neuman is an expert in immigration law, a speciality that Harvard has sought in recent years...
...past year as evidence of the faculty’s continuing strength. The constitutional law professors hired laterally in the past year are Daryl J. Levinson ’90 of NYU, C. 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?...
...cherry-picking decisions." But that is standard procedure for any confirmation fight. And Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey defense lawyer who has known Alito for decades and likes him personally, says the nominee would certainly move the court to the right on a wide range of issues. Mark Tushnet, a constitutional-law professor at Georgetown University, says he takes his cues from the enthusiasm of Alito's conservative supporters, and if he's not one of them, they have been "hoodwinked." Says Tushnet. "Roberts is smoother. Alito is more rough-edged, and you can see the conservatism more clearly...