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"A B-Minus? The Shock! The Horror!"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this amusing article in the New York Times concerning Solicitor General Elena Kagan's performance during her time as a student at Harvard Law School.  The story is a must-read for anyone who did not as well as they had hoped at the hoped at the start of law school, and here is how it starts: She went on to be the dean of Harvard Law School, the solicitor general of the United States, and now a nominee to the Supreme Court. But in the fall of 1983, Elena Kagan was just another first-year law student at Harvard. And like many high achievers adjusting to an intensely competitive law school, the 23-year-old Ms. Kagan initially struggled ? at least by the standards of the kind of student who arrived with a summa cum laude degree from Princeton and an Oxford master?s degree under her belt...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).