BU Now » Elena Kagan http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Law professor Jack Beermann on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/13/law-professor-jack-beerman-on-elena-kagans-supreme-court-nomination/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/13/law-professor-jack-beerman-on-elena-kagans-supreme-court-nomination/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 16:56:29 +0000 Jenny Mackintosh http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=5549

]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/13/law-professor-jack-beerman-on-elena-kagans-supreme-court-nomination/feed/ 0 Kagan nominated to SCOTUS http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/10/kagan-nominated-to-scotus/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/10/kagan-nominated-to-scotus/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 15:37:19 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=5485 Elena KaganU.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, a former Harvard Law School dean, was nominated by President Obama to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court.  BU Law Professor Jack Beermann, an authority on the high court who knows the nominee well, says he see it as a strong plus that Kagan is not a sitting judge and that the idea that she lacks experience is completely off base.

“Her service in the Clinton and Obama administrations, her judicial clerkships with Thurgood Marshall and Abner Mikva, her years practicing law, and her academic background — including her great success as the dean of the Harvard Law School — make her just as well-prepared for the Supreme Court as someone who has had some years as a Court of Appeals judge.”

Contact Jack Beermann, 617-353-2577, beermann@bu.edu

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