Posted on 05/09/2010 7:37:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Edited on 05/09/2010 7:38:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
(lol) Chazz Bono!
And qualifications no longer matter in 2010.
A year ago, she hired renowned legal scholar Cass Sunstein
“If you tell her something can’t be done, you’d better be ready to back it up with a brick wall of an obstacle. Otherwise, she will find a way to do it,” Dunham writes
Reviewing 130 years of curricular history
Perhaps the most ambitious item on Kagan’s far-reaching agenda is also the most embryonic. She’s launched a curricular review to re-examine how law is taught - for the first time since HLS Dean Christopher Langdell introduced the current curriculum in the 1870s. Langdell’s vision that first-year students study contracts, torts, property and procedure, and criminal law endures, says Kagan, for better or for worse.
“It really is time to say, ‘Is that really what students should be taking? Are they learning the set of competencies that they need to master in order to go out and be a great lawyer in today’s world? How has the world changed in the last 100 and some years?’” she says. Kagan is confident that the multiyear review will turn up an intensified focus on international and comparative law, something relevant to almost all practicing lawyers today.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/09.16/03-kagan.html
Her most significant work is on the Solomon Amendment, legislation that withholds federal funds from colleges and universities when they ban military recruiters because the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy conflicts with many universities’ anti-discrimination policies.
As dean, Kagan supported a lawsuit intended to overturn the legislation so military recruiters might be banned from the grounds of schools like Harvard. When a federal appeals court ruled the Pentagon could not withhold funds, she banned the military from Harvard’s campus once again. The case was challenged in the Supreme Court, which ruled the military could indeed require schools to allow recruiters if they wanted to receive federal money. Kagan, though she allowed the military back, simultaneously urged students to demonstrate against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
Throughout the controversy, Kagan maintained contact with Harvard Law School’s LGBT community. She attended a meeting of the student group Lambda and spoke with its leaders. Kagan has shown her commitment to advocating for LGBT rights, and it seems clear that Kagan’s experience battling Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on campus demonstrates she understands the needs of Harvard Law’s gay and lesbian community.
http://www.afterellen.com/node/71243
No, Sotomayer is the first.
As IF I believe the NYT’s views.
I agree.
Are all liberals ugly?
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Not all but about 95% are.
You got me there.
“Newsome”
I don’t get it.
Heh. Until I looked it up I had no idea what your comment was about. Now I know; more toxic hope and "change", uh, transformation or whatever. But yeah, the Kagan person has the appearance of potentially being a very confused individual. Just what we need on the high court; another idiot that couldn't find the Constitution if it was stuck up their nether parts. But that's just me...
Ruth Buzzy has children.
Ruth Buzzy has children.
Newsome is the mayor of San Francisco that was doing all of those illegal gay weddings a few years back.
Yes but my question is why is it consistently misspelled Newsome with the extra “e”?
No worries. It’s not just you.
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