She was the first female Dean of Harvard Law School in 2003...
She raised $476 million for the school and therefore increased the size of the faculty... plus free morning coffee for everyone...
*Elena Kagan despised the fact that the military was allowed in the grounds to recruit students...
From 2005 to 2008 she was an advisor to the Goldman Sachs... Global Markets Institute...
She was also the first female US Solicitor General... appointed by President Barack Obama...
Kagan drew a lot of criticism from both left and right... when she argued in the government’s brief to the Supreme Court, that speech was entitled to no First Amendment protection if its harms outweigh its benefits: "Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs"...
The law would have criminalized depictions of animal cruelty... but it was rightly ruled unconstitutional...
*President Barack Obama has nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens in the US Supreme Court.
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