Career & Writings of Elena Kagan

President Obama has announced the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she will serve as the 112^th Justice in the nation's history. She would be the fourth female Justice to serve on the Supreme Court, replacing the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

According to the New York Times, "the president chose a well-regarded 50-year-old lawyer who served as a staff member in all three branches of government and was the first woman to be dean of Harvard Law School. If confirmed, she would be the youngest member and the third woman on the current court, but the first justice in nearly four decades without any prior judicial experience."

Elena Kagan's Career

Kagan has been serving as the Solicitor General of the United States, since she was appointed by Obama in January of 2009. She was the first woman appointed to that position. Early in her career, Kagan served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She later became a professor at the University of Chicago's law school. Kagan then joined the White House as a Deputy Domestic Policy Director. She returned to academic life to serve as the Dean of Harvard Law School until her appointment to the position of Soliciter General.

Bibliography: The Writings of Elena Kagan

Elena Kagan has contributed to the legal field throughout her career, publishing articles on a variety of topics. Many of these articles are now available for free at the website of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary - http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/111thCongressExecutiveNominations/SolicitorGeneral-ElenaKagan.cfm . They have a page of information on the nomination of Elena Kagan, and a list of her publications, including the many speeches that she has given.

Elena Kagan, "Remarks Commemorating Celebration 44: The Women's Leadership Summit, Introduction," 32 Harv. J. L. & Gender233 (2009)

Elena Kagan, "The Harvard Law School Revisited: Reflecting on Louis D. Brandeis's Harvard Law School Reflections," 11 Green Bag, 475 (2008)

Elena Kagan, "Clark Byse," 121 Harvard L. Rev. 454 (2007)

Elena Kagan, "Richard Posner, the Judge," 120 Harvard L. Rev. 1121 (2007)

Elena Kagan, "David Westfall," 119 Harvard L. Rev 947 (2006)

Elena Kagan, "Women and the Legal Profession - A Status Report," 61 Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 37 (2006)

Elena Kagan, "Presidential Administration," 114 Harvard L. Rev. 2245 (2001)

Elena Kagan & David J. Barron, "Chevron's Nondelegation Doctrine," 2001 The Supreme Court Rev.[33] 201 (2001)

Elena Kagan, Libel and the First Amendment (Update), Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement II (2000)

Elena Kagan, Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2000)

Elena Kagan, "When a Speech Code is a Speech Code: the Stanford Policy and the Theory of Incidental Restraints," 29 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 957 (1996)

Elena Kagan, "Private Speech, Public Purpose: the Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," 63 The University of Chicago L. Rev 413 (1996)

Elena Kagan, Confirmation Messes, Old and New (Book Review), 62 University of Chicago L. Rev. 919 (1995)

Elena Kagan, "For Justice Marshall," 71 Texas L. Rev. 1125 (1993)

Elena Kagan, "A Libel Story: Sullivan Then and Now," 18 Law & Social Inquiry 197 (1993)

Elena Kagan, "The Changing Faces of First Amendment Neutrality: R.A.V. v St. Paul [112 S. Ct. 2538 (1992)], Rust v Sullivan [111 S. Ct. 1759 (1991)], and the Problem of Content-Based Underinclusion," 1992 The Supreme Court Rev. 29 (1992)

Sources:

Elena Kagan http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/kagan_elena/index.html?inline=nyt-per

Elena Kagan's Page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan

Georgetown Library Supreme Court Nominations Guide http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/supreme_court_nominations.cfm

Elena Kagan on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126611113

Elena Kagan's Page: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/111thCongressExecutiveNominations/SolicitorGeneral-ElenaKagan.cfm