And his visits to campuses -- including Harvard Law School, his alma mater, where Kagan served as dean from 2003-2009 -- had the effect of "exciting students, challenging students, provoking ...

Former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod revealed that Justice Antonin Scalia personally requested his ideological opposite Elena Kagan be nominated to the Supreme Court. Writing for CNN two days ...

MADISON – The 2016 death of Antonin Scalia forced the other members of the U.S. Supreme Court to compromise more often, Justice Elena Kagan told an audience Friday at the University of Wisconsin ...

In a 2015 interview at Harvard Law School honoring her then-colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, Kagan proclaimed that “we are all textualists now.” Earlier this year, however, in a dissent ...

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For Elena Kagan, it was a moment of sheer triumph. Presiding over a gala dinner three years ago among the Italianate arches of the art museum at Harvard University, a beaming Kagan praised the ...

And if Scalia could not have a philosophical ally in the next court appointee, he had hoped, at least, for one with the heft to give him a good, honest fight. Kagan didn’t get that nomination.

In her six appearances before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan has argued some of the term's most important constitutional challenges to government action. Justice Antonin Scalia ...

When Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia visited campus in 2005, I watched Dean Kagan, a scholar of administrative law, ask whether a “prime criterion” for joining the court was ...

Washington Post reporters Ann Gerhart and Philip Rucker on Thursday offer up what we consider to be one of the better profiles we've read on Elena Kagan. Not Elena Kagan, the scholar or ...

University of Virginia law professor Aditya Bamzai delivered a speech on legal scope and the domain of judicial deference at the Harvard Law School’s annual Scalia lecture on Wednesday.