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PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Why would Elena Kagan give up the deanship of Harvard Law School, for which she has been widely celebrated, for the cloistered life of the Supreme Court? Um, let's see. Perhaps the ad wizards at American Express can help us out here: Hiring every law professor in the country: Sweet. Realizing that you now have to preside over faculty meetings involving every law professor in the country:...
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Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Unfortunately, my posts from the Harvard Law School Program on the Globalization of the Legal Profession had to end at about 1:00 p.m. I could not stay for the lunch talks by Detlev Vagts, Elena Kagan,...
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GregsOpinion.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
» Salon: Ten picks for Obama's Supreme Court Names to know for the most immediate SCOTUS opening. First up, the estrogen, legal eagle set: Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan Diane P. Wood Leah Ward Sears Sotomayor, Sears and Kagan look like...
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Main St. USA (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Salon.com reviews the possibilities . Their top ten candidates: Sonia Sotomayor, 54 (I once argued an appellate case in front of her, and my knees-shaking impression was that she was very sparkly and vivacious. And kind.) Deval Patrick, 52 (my governor!) Elena Kagan, 48 Merrick Garland, 56 Cass Sunstein, 54 Diane P. Wood, 58 Jennifer Granholm, 49 Leah Ward Sears, 53 Harold Hongju Koh,...
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Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Three frequently mentioned candidates are Judges Diane Wood, 58, of the U.S. appeals court in Chicago; Sonia Sotomayor, 54, of the U.S. appeals court in New York; and Elena Kagan, 48, dean of Harvard Law School.Wood knows Obama from her time teaching at the University of Chicago. Sotomayor could be the first Latino named to the high court. Kagan, who served as a domestic policy...
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Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
I am sitting in the Ropes & Gray Room in Pound Hall at Harvard Law School, next to Bill Henderson, attending . Right now, Dr. David Nersessian, the executive director of the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession is giving an overview of the day, which will include a keynote address from Ben Heineman, the former GC of GE, and talks by David Wilkins, Elena Kagan, and other...
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forward movement (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... favored by Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other former Clinton White House officials, is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the White House counsel’s office under Clinton. Another top candidate, favored by other Obama advisors, is David Ogden, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, who is currently heading Obama’s Justice Department...
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Alyson Love (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... favored by Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other former Clinton White House officials, is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the White House counsel’s office under Clinton. Another top candidate, favored by other Obama advisers, is David Ogden, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, who is currently heading Obama’s Justice Department...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... favored by Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other former Clinton White House officials, is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the White House counsel’s office under Clinton. Another top candidate, favored by other Obama advisors, is David Ogden, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, who is currently heading Obama’s Justice Department...
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World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... favored by Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other former Clinton White House officials, is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the White House counsel's office under Clinton. Another top candidate, favored by other Obama advisors, is David Ogden, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, who is currently heading Obamas Justice Department...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Three frequently mentioned candidates are Judges Diane Wood, 58, of the U.S. appeals court in Chicago; Sonia Sotomayor, 54, of the U.S. appeals court in New York; and Elena Kagan, 48, dean of Harvard Law School.Wood knows Obama from her time teaching at the University of Chicago. Sotomayor could be the first Latino named to the high court. Kagan, who served as a domestic policy...
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Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
A mere 389 years after the first Africans were brought to this country in bondage, and a mere 40 years after RFK predicted it, an African-American is the President of the United States of America. Wow. Let the new Supreme Court speculation begin!!! Diane Wood? Elena Kagan? Oh, brave new world with such people in't. Earlier : Lawyers Poised To Rule The World
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Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
... the judges rumored to be on Obama’s short list for the Supreme Court, like Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, are hardly unfriendly to the presidency. As a scholar, Kagan is perhaps best known for her smart, nuanced 2001 law review article, Presidential Administration , which–while differing in many nuanced respects from Bush era legal framework for thinking about executive power–celebrates...
