Academic

?Dean Kagan Hires Every Law Professor in the Country?

By Ann Bartow

From the April 1st edition of Harvard Law School’s The Record:

Harvard Law School’s communications office announced today that HLS has hired every law professor in the country, solidifying its position as the preeminent law school in America.

Dean Elena Kagan said that she got the idea from recent additions to the faculty. “As soon as we’d hire one professor from, say, Columbia or Chicago,” said Kagan, “he or she would suggest another prize we should grab. We hired two, then three, then finally realized we were only delaying the inevitable.”

“Plus,” added Kagan, “our U.S. News ranking was being held back by our student-teacher ratio.” Harvard’s student-teacher ratio, formerly 11:1, currently stands at 1:17. …

Via Brian Leiter.

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on April 06, 2008 (boomark / email).