Tag: Elena Kagan

  • Nation & World

    ‘Do more and do better’

    Lawrence Summers, president emeritus, reflects on his time leading the University at the unveiling of his presidential portrait at Widener Library.

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    Lawrence Summers portrait unveiling.
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    Clarence Thomas isn’t kidding

    Legal scholar Mary Ziegler sees “selective” history in SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and signs that other landmark protections are in jeopardy.

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    Protesters at the State House in Boston.
  • Nation & World

    The chosen one: Amy Coney Barrett

    In her new book Linda Greenhouse traces forces that made near certain rise of newest — and undeniably consequential — Supreme Court justice.

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    President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett.
  • Nation & World

    ‘I developed a sense of the enormous, great luck in managing to survive, giving me a strong feeling that I had an obligation to pay it forward’

    As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.

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    Laurence Tribe.
  • Nation & World

    High court press

    Harvard men’s basketball team got a behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court.

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    Harvard basketball team.
  • Nation & World

    A supremely jolly affair

    Six Supreme Court justices, five current and one retired, took part in an amiable public conversation at Sanders Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of Harvard Law School.

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    On the steps of Langdell Library, Harvard Law School faculty surround six Supreme Court justices. Back row, from left: Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy ’61; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79; Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer ’64; and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch ’91. Front row: Associate Justice (retired) David H. Souter ’66 and Associate Justice Elena Kagan ’86, the former dean of HLS.
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    Stepping down and speaking up

    In an interview with the Gazette, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow reflects on her eight years leading the School.

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  • Nation & World

    Court sense

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan peeled back part of the curtain on the court’s inner workings during a lively discussion with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow.

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  • Nation & World

    Shadowing the Supreme Court

    Every January, a handful of Harvard Law School students head to Washington, D.C., to work on cases bound for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  • Nation & World

    Poetry spreads its web

    At month’s end, Professor Elisa New will begin teaching “Poetry in America,” her first digital course on HarvardX.

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    Law School dedicates new building

    University leaders, donors, alumni, professors past and present, representatives from the city of Cambridge, and members of the architectural firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects participated in the dedication of Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing Building on April 20.

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  • Nation & World

    Moot points, well made

    The Harvard Law School teams in the showdown round of the Ames Moot Court Competition tried to persuade a panel headed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to change the law of the land.

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  • Nation & World

    It was a very good year

    With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.

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  • Nation & World

    The Supreme Court’s new dynamic

    A question-and-answer session with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and professor Noah Feldman discusses the arrival of former dean Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the likely issues for the year ahead in American jurisprudence.

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  • Nation & World

    Colleagues recall Kagan’s years at Harvard

    At Harvard, new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is remembered as an insightful intellectual, a tough-minded basketball player, and a colleague who had grit, graciousness, and patience.

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    Harvard’s historic mark

    As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of now 23 justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and historical ways — they all hail from Harvard.

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  • Nation & World

    Seeing Harvard from all sides

    Bill Lee, who is the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, has seen Harvard from many vantage points: He attended the College, has taught at the Law School, served as an Overseer and has been a proud Harvard parent – twice. As he prepared to join the Corporation, Lee sat down with the Gazette to…

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  • Nation & World

    Obama names Elena Kagan solicitor general

    President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Harvard Law School (HLS) Dean Elena Kagan as solicitor general. If confirmed by the Senate, Kagan will be the first woman to hold the title.

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  • Nation & World

    Kagan joins American Indian Empowerment Fund

    Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan has been named an advisory board member of the American Indian Empowerment Fund (AIEF).

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    Steven Oliveira named HLS associate dean and dean for development

    Steven Oliveira, an accomplished university advancement professional with more than 23 years of experience, has joined Harvard Law School (HLS) as associate dean and dean for development and alumni relations. Oliveira brings a wide range of relevant experience to his new position, including senior positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, and…

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  • Nation & World

    Sunstein joins HLS, where eminent scholar will direct new program

    Renowned legal scholar and political theorist Cass R. Sunstein has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty, Dean Elena Kagan announced Tuesday (Feb. 19). Sunstein, currently a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School, will begin teaching at HLS in the fall. He will also become director of the…

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  • Nation & World

    Upcoming Supreme Court cases examined

    What’s up this year at the U.S. Supreme Court?

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    The rights of children are focus of Bar Association conference at HLS

    In the United States, a child is born into poverty every 36 seconds. Every six hours, an American child dies of neglect or abuse. And every year, the number of children in abuse investigations could populate a city the size of Detroit.

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  • Nation & World

    Legal, ethical limits to bioengineering debated

    It is a truism that “politics makes strange bedfellows,” but late Tuesday afternoon (March 20), in the Ames Courtroom of Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Austin Hall, bioethics made two sets of philosophical bedfellows as strange as any Washington has seen.

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  • Nation & World

    Wassersteins give $25 million to HLS

    The Wasserstein family has made a $25 million gift to Harvard Law School to support construction of Wasserstein Hall, the new academic center of the Harvard Law School (HLS) campus, Dean Elena Kagan announced today (March 22). The gift is the second biggest in the Law School’s history.

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