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Elena Kagan Calls Judicial Activist Judge Her Judicial Hero, Proudest Association
At an award ceremony held at Harvard Law School in September 2006, Dean Elena Kagan introduced the winner of the annual Peter Gruber Foundation Justice Prize, newly-retired President Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. In her remarks, Dean Kagan called Aharon Barak “my judicial hero.”[1]
The press release issued by the Gruber Foundation announcing the award stated: “President Barak is renowned for championing an activist judiciary and the rule of law and democracy.”[2]
In her introduction, Ms. Kagan noted there have been many “famous and great judges Harvard Law School [has been] associated with”....
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