President Barack Obama last week presented U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as one of the nation's "foremost legal minds." But is the former Harvard Law dean actually scholar-lite? Some academic and political commentators questioned her slim body of scholarship given her 14 years in academia. It is not just the number of her scholarly articles -- essentially four major and three lesser ones -- that bothers Kagan skeptics, but the lack of any discernible personal opinions on the issues addressed.
May 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
President Barack Obama last week presented U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as one of the nation’s “foremost legal minds.” But is the former Harvard Law dean actually scholar-lite?
Some academic and political commentators questioned her slim body of scholarship given her 14 years in academia — eight as a teacher and nearly six as dean.
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