With the confirmation of Elena Kagan as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, eight of the nine sitting justices have graduated from only two law schools—Harvard and Yale. This Article frames this development in the historical context of the legal education of the justices confirmed between 1902 and 2010. What this historical review makes clear is that the Ivy League dominance of the Supreme Court...
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