Professor Chander Co-authors Essay on Kagan for Salon.com
Professor Anupam Chander has co-authored an essay for Salon.com analyzing the Obama administration's response to questions that had been raised regarding Solicitor General Elena Kagan as a potential Supreme Court nominee.
News of a possible Kagan nomination has been met with questions about her record during her tenure as Dean of Harvard Law School, where the Law School was able to hire 32 tenured and tenure-track faculty, yet hired only seven women and only one non-white. The questions were discussed in a joint letter to the White House by the article's authors, Professor Chander, Guy-Uriel Charles, a Professor at Duke Law School (who also blogged about the issue); Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, a Professor at Indiana University's School of Law; and Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law.
The Obama administration responded with a defense of Kagan's record asserting that the hiring numbers are misleading because they do not reflect offers made to minority and women candidates who weren't hired. The authors found this response unsatisfactory, and pointed out that the administration wrongly focuses on offers for visiting professor positions, not offers for permanent professorships, to women and minorities.
Professor Anupam Chander is a leading scholar in the law of globalization and digitization, and has written widely on international law, cyber law, and corporate law.