Above the Law reports that newly confirmed Justice Elena Kagan has hired four law clerks, three of whom have just finished clerking for other Justices. David Lat describes Kagan’s hiring of Allon Kedem, a former clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy as “very shrewd,†explaining that Kedem “knows how [Justice Kennedy]  thinks and how the swing Justice will approach the cases.â€
At a post at Forbes, Andrew Schnekel speculates on how “green†the new Justice may be. He notes that as the dean at Harvard, Justice Kagan oversaw the creation of the school’s Environmental Law Program and an Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
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