Lawbama Profs cross the street to join the administration - Jan 5 Update
Posted: 05 Jan 2009 10:22 PM CST
With most Cabinet picks in place,
it's now time for important non- and sub-Cabinet positions to be filled in the
new administration. As I did with the transition
teams, I have started a running list of law professors named to
full-time posts in the administration (in alphabetical order). This will
doubtless go on for several months....
DAWN
JOHNSEN - Indiana University constitutional law scholar, reproductive rights
expert and old friend, Dawn Johnsen will be the head of the Office of Legal
Counsel in DoJ. OLC is one of the most important legal policy-setting jobs in
any administration. Dawn will hit the ground running: she learned the ropes
while working in OLC during the Clinton administration, under Walter Dellinger.
Her comments on the challenges ahead are here.
ELENA KAGAN - The Harvard Law Dean
becomes Solicitor General, and immediately moves WAY up the list
of potential Supreme Court nominees. Kagan has done such a spectacular
job as the Harvard Dean that she's the closest thing to a rock star among legal
academics. The immediate joke: this appointment will be celebrated most
enthusiastically by every other law school dean in America, given the
incredible success she has had in raiding other faculties. For more on Elena,
see the Boston Globe.
Comments