Sixty-nine school deans have signed a letter endorsing Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, praising her “understanding of both doctrine and policy.”
The letter, addressed to the Senate Judiciary Committee, was distributed by the White House as means of garnering support for Kagan’s upcoming Senate confirmation hearings, which are scheduled to begin June 28.
Kagan was the dean of Harvard Law School and a professor of law at the University of Chicago before she was named solicitor general for the Obama administration.
The letter, written by Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer, says that Kagan’s “writing in constitutional and administrative law are highly respected and widely cited” and that she was a “superb” dean at Harvard Law.
