Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan has been nominated to be the new Solicitor General. Sasha Issenberg has this story in the Boston Globe.
Given that she comes from academia, I was curious to see what she has written to shed some light on what direction the office may be headed. The list is on the HLS website. The substantive law articles are all on the First Amendment. Interestingly, she has written three articles, out of a total of nine, on or largely on a single case: R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992).
Press coverage notes that she has not argued a Supreme Court case and that she clerked for Justice Marshall, neither of which should be considered disqualifying, IMHO. I expect we will learn more about her shortly.
Given that she comes from academia, I was curious to see what she has written to shed some light on what direction the office may be headed. The list is on the HLS website. The substantive law articles are all on the First Amendment. Interestingly, she has written three articles, out of a total of nine, on or largely on a single case: R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992).
Press coverage notes that she has not argued a Supreme Court case and that she clerked for Justice Marshall, neither of which should be considered disqualifying, IMHO. I expect we will learn more about her shortly.
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