Minow LAW '79 named dean of Harvard Law School
Harvard University selected on Thursday one of its law professors, Martha Minow LAW ’79, to be the next dean of Harvard Law School.
Minow, 54, a 28-year veteran of the law school's faculty, succeeds Elena Kagan, who was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as solicitor general. Her appointment is effective July 1.
“Martha Minow has been an intellectual leader, a devoted teacher and mentor, a collaborative colleague, and an exemplary institutional citizen across her nearly three decades of service on the Harvard Law School faculty,” Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust...
Minow is exactly the right choice. She is an outstanding scholar with a deep understanding of the institutional and curricular challenges Harvard faces (under the radar, she was basically the author of the huge curricular reforms there in recent years).
I hope Yale Law School can choose a dean as thoughtful and effective as Minow. This is a pretty high bar, actually.
The key question here is whether Prof. Minow will be more like Dean Elena Kagan (very liberal but also respectful of people with different viewpoints) or like Koh (all around left-wing hack). Hopefully the former.