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As, Professor Jolls. I recall discussing her with a faculty member back in my student days. He called her photo, displayed in the ground-floor hallway of Pound Hall, a "glamour shot."

He was right. She was pretty hot. Harvard's loss was Yale's gain.

she does not even compare for half a second to Georgetown Law's famous tax King--Ginsburg.

Pro-redistribution is IVY league for Obama Supporter.

She'll be humping Sunstein within a month

How old is she? She looks about 30 in that photo.

"an expert on . . . economic justice"

And how, pray tell, does one become an expert on economic justice? Better question: what the Hell is "economic justice"?

Roooowwwwr!

I could have loved tax...

Harvard to #1

Great, another communist. Yay!

This is getting ridiculous. Harold Koh needs to start doing his job. I don't think YLS lost 1 person during Tony Kronman's entire tenure as dean. This is the second big loss in two weeks.

economic justice is what you get when put lawyers in charge of economics. And no, it never works. Smokin' though...

are we sure she's the one that kagan was bragging about to prospectives?

had her for tax, totally overrated

...and again!... and again!

Yale pwned! Oh snap!

Jesus Christ. The descriptions of her books are a case-in-point of the maxim that some ideas are so stupid that only academics can believe them. Let's just hand out checks for $5 grand to all parents to use for education and/or retirement savings? And even worse, give $80 grand -- $80 grand! -- to everyone on their 21st birthday?! It would surely be a great boon for bars, as 21 year olds order up the most expensive shots available.

What a kook.

Damn, Kagan is a monster

What would possess her to uplift her entire life and start anew? Is Harvard really gonna be giving her that much money than Yale was? Harvard surely is not more prestigious than Yale. Why do you guys think she left Yale?

Thank goodness we have such geniuses hard at work on the issue of economic justice. They think hard -- one can see the steam coming out of their ears -- until they come up with a plan to . . . hand out large checks! Brilliant! Why has no one thought of this before?

She is way hotter than Kashmir even!

I was expecting a bigger name. Just out of question, how does Lat know she was once a conservative? In 1999, very early in her academic carerr, she co-published a book with Bruce Ackerman, who is an uber-liberal.

"What would possess her to uplift her entire life and start anew? Is Harvard really gonna be giving her that much money than Yale was? Harvard surely is not more prestigious than Yale. Why do you guys think she left Yale?"

My guess is that she was attracted by the gravitational pull that is Cass Sunstein's "aggressively masculinity."

http://www.02138mag.com/lists/PC/1111.html

I was at Yale in the late 1990s, and she was a liberal by then. The gossip was that she was a conservative back when she was married to Crovitz (late 1980s; click on the link Lat provides to their NYT wedding announcement).

Boston vs. New Haven?

How to finance the $80,000 boon to 21 year olds? Of course, tax the living shit out of everone else! These are the kinds of ideas on Ivy-league professors can come up with -- solving inequality by forcing Jim to fork over half his wealth to John. Who'd have believed it could be so easy?

How bout a 2% tax on all wealth over $80,000? And let's also impose an additional "silver spoon" tax on anyone born into a childhood of "privilege." Enjoy your freedom now, young Billy, because Uncle Sam is going to demand that these care-free days of hopscotch cost you a pretty penny later.

And to think, they made this idiocy into a BOOK! Wouldn't it have been more appropriate for the back of some fringe communist party pamphlet?

Seriously, how old is that picture? She looks like a summer associate.

Koh's done pretty well attracting the best young up-and-comers, though losing Yoshino was definitely a hit. I'll be curious to see if he pulls off any big coups. If Henry Smith, or Post/Siegel finally bolt for Harvard, then Koh will be in dire straits.

But hey, at least we're #1 in BIGTERRORISTLAW.

In response to the "Update" --

Why does the public service initiative stop at 3L tuition? The first two years of HLS still amount to a big chunk of change.

That is NOT hotter than Kash. You take that shit back.

Third year (or $35K-$40K) tuition is not enough to make the caliber prospective student HArvard is looking at sacrifice x years of their life in public service. Now if it were ALL of law school it would be more intriguing

re HLS tuition

Why does the class of 2011 get 40k, while the class of 2009 only gets 5k???!

HLS is so TTT compared to Yale (or Stanford).

5:35, good point. The Stakeholder Society, er, the Communist Manifesto...

Hey, every stop what they're doing and listen up for a minute: I went to Yale.

5:50, I am not disagreeing (yet), but I don't know who these great up-and-comers are that you speak of. I just scanned the entire roster, and all of the younger ones that I recognized were from Kronman's last fews years.

I obviously meant "few years," so please don't bother with the grammar police.

The only thing keeping hls from solidifying #2 in us news is student faculty ratio. With the hiring blitz, stanford will be left behind as #3, and yls should watch its back too.

I'd hit it.

What happened with her and Crovitz?

Yale, Harvard...yawn.

6:53 - Agreed. If Harvard would keep its same faculty and resources, but shrink its enrollment by 25 percent (or more), it would quickly become the top law school in the country.

She used to be a tax associate at S&C.

That picture was from Harvard. Look what Yale did to Jolls -- http://www.yale.edu/opa/v35.n9/story7.html

855 - oh my. I hoping there was at least 10 years between the HLS pic and YLS pic.

seriously...who gives a damn?

What a coup! Oh my God! Holy shit!!!
WOW! Amazing! Jesus, what will Harvard do? Christ almighty!
WHO GIVES A FUCK!

8:55: yow. I thought the photo on Jolls' bio was the same one I remembered from Harvard in the late '90s. The years have not been kind.

YLS to corpse-looking profs!

Any idea what is the difference in the comps b/w Yale and Harvard?

Talk about the tragedy of low expectations. "Rather attractive?" Are you kidding me?

Lat, you live in New York City, correct? You can't tell me you trip over 4 dozen better looking women on your way to Starbucks everyday.

I'd fuck her.

I love Dean Kagan and HLS and the fact that she makes a big new hire every 3 months, but... "social welfare policy, family policy, and feminism and economic justice"? Yikes. Applicability to the real world, anyone?

She's going to have to tone down some of that nowhere-else-but-in-law-school stuff. HLS ain't Yale. And thank goodness for that.

The second husband took Alstott's name- they walk the walk...

I'd take much of the crazy things academics write with a grain of salt. The pressure to publish original work on a regular basis gives them a fairly strong incentive to make outrageous claims or pursue preposterous lines of thought that on sober reflection probably make them cringe right along with the rest of us.

10:50,

Yes, because HLS, the home of the crits, really tones down their fluffy theories with little real world applicability.

I got a redistribution idea.

Every month, each poor person gets one free mugging of one "rich" person, preferably white (to compensate for slavery), but Asians are ok too. He can keep whatever he takes.

Using the criminal system to redistribute wealth. YLS tenure, here I come.

2:26, sorry, no tenure - you're too late. See Paul Butler, Affirmative Action and the Criminal Law, 68 U. Col. L.R. 841 (1997) (arguing, inter alia, for "a goal for the year 2000, [of] a prison population that more accurately reflects the racial diversity of America.")

I had Professor Jolls at Harvard, before she left for Yale. She was far and away the best professor I ever had in law school. She's brilliant, clear, and very nice. (Also, the Yale picture doesn't do her justice -- she's much more attractive in real life. Very petite, well-dressed, and just generally put together.)

This is right up there with the weddings with things I don't care about.

If you guys don't care about it, why are you posting comments about it? Shut up and do something you do care about.

she looks kind of homely to me

1:36 -- the Crits have been a non-entity at HLS for fifteen years. They have their own little niche that caters to 20% of the law school population. If you look at the hires of the last 10 years, almost nobody falls into that limited category anymore. They're all real-world rock stars like Feldman, Goldsmith, or law-and-econ or corporate law types -- people who are academics, sure, but whose work actually is influenced by and has an effect on the world outside of the rarified airs of law school.

The Stakeholder Society.

ha ha ha

Faculty moves... Yawn (squared).

homely profs pics = lawyer porn

Postings at 1:23AM to 4:52 AM: priceless!

OK, with all the barkalicious "divas" that get the label "hottie" (judicial and otherwise) on this site, Alstott only gets "rather attractive"? Come on. I didn't go to YLS or HLS, and have never seen this woman in person, but picture to picture she trounces almost ALL the "hotties" you have ever identified (barring the beauty queens/pornstars and your recently added co-bloggers - we still luv ya, huns).

And for all the "I see 10 hotter women in NYC every minute" posters: OK, we get it. You've found your justification for moving to a place with grueling hours and unattainable real estate prices, and you're sticking to it. Nobody outside of NYC counts as hot. You win. Now back to doc review and don't stop until 4am!!

She's "academic" hot, but smoking if that's your type.

weird thing is that her CV shows that she had significant experience before entering academia (a few years at sullivan & cromwell, a couple at Treasury).

yet she has gravitated towards writing on obscure topics that (correct me if i'm wrong) aren't relevant to anyone in the real world. what happened? is yale that much of a bubble?

12:30, yes, unfortunately, it is.

"The second husband took Alstott's name"

How does he survive around men (I'd say other men, but that would give him too much credit)? One would think that the laughter and mocking would eventually get the better of said second husband.

213 - if he was in a position to meet and marry a law professor, chances are he is never around men.

Harold Koh to HLS.

Need a full body shot to determine if she's doable.

And a picture that wasn't taken in the 1990s ...

Lat, how about a dedicated post about law schools' public service debt assistance? Tryign to cram it into the comments of a post about HLS faculty moves seems silly, and has clearly been unsuccessful.

Firstly: which schools are good about post-grad aid for public interest lawyers? Which schools claim to be good but weigh down their aid programs with hidden gotchas? Which schools just suck, and need a little touch of the old ATL Effect (i.e. being publicly guilted into changing their policies)?

Secondly: how about an examination of the relative incentives of up-front tuition aid (whether merit- or need-based) and post-grad public service debt assistance? I know in my school many people who received nedd-based aid went straight into biglaw and became your standard silly, overworked rich assholes, whereas the people in public service who rely on loan assistance find it hard to commit long-term, because the assistance, while generous, is not quite generous enough. I hear the latter people often complain that the up-front aid their (now-)rich friends received was misdirected.

And for the record, the HLS policy seems silly. if their loan assistance program works like the one at my alma mater, it covers a percentage of your monthly loan payments, based on an equation that includes your salary and your debt. The result is that everyone in the program ends up making a similar amount of take-home pay, whether their salary is 40K or 60K; and any raises are effectively canceled, because the schools will reduce your assistance by the amount of the raise. By the same token, reducing debt from 150K to 100K will just mean lower monthly payments, which means less assistance from the school, and the results for the lawyer is negligible. (Also notice the perverse incentives, whereby law students going into public service are best off maxing out their loans and living it up in law school, whereas students going into biglaw are best off scrimping and saving in school.)