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October 27, 2008
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HARVARD LAW SCHOOL DEAN ELENA KAGAN
JOINS EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
JOINS EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dean Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law and the Dean of Harvard Law School since 2003, has made public service for lawyers one of her highest priorities. She instituted a third-year tuition waiver policy for graduates pledging five years to public interest work; expanded the school’s loan repayment assistance program; provided summer funding for students pursuing public service; and offered more clinical programs. She was recognized recently by Equal Justice Works for her extraordinary commitment to public service as the recipient of the 2008 John R. Kramer Outstanding Law School Dean Award.
“Dean Kagan has helped raise the profile of public service at law schools across the country,” said David Stern, Chief Executive Officer for Equal Justice Works. “She has been an inspiration to those of us who work to ensure that the next generation of lawyers is committed to justice. She has created countless opportunities for students to engage in public service and she has increased dramatically the resources aimed at overcoming the educational debt barrier that blocks so many graduates from pursuing their dreams.”
Dean Kagan came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. A leading scholar of administrative law, her work focuses on the role of the President of the United States in formulating and influencing federal administrative and regulatory law. From 1995 to 1999, Dean Kagan served in the White House, first as Associate Counsel to the President and then as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
Previously, Dean Kagan clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court; worked as an associate at Williams & Connolly; and taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where she received the graduating students' award for teaching excellence.
Dean Kagan received her bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton in 1981. She attended Worcester College, Oxford, as Princeton's Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow and received an M. Phil. in 1983. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude in 1986.
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Equal Justice Works, a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 1986 by law students dedicated to working for equal justice on behalf of underserved communities and causes. Today, Equal Justice Works is the national leader in creating summer and postgraduate public interest opportunities for law students and lawyers as well as in advocating for more public interest programming at law schools. For more information, visit www.equaljusticeworks.org.
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