- Kagan, born in New York in 1960, has been a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010.
- The Law Librarian of Congress Aslihan Bulut and Counselor to the Chief Justice Judge Robert M. Dow Jr. will introduce the program.
2024 Supreme Court Fellows Annual Program Annual Lecture to Feature U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
The Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program will present a conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for the 2024 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 3:15 p.m. EST.
This event will be live-streamed on the Library’s YouTube channel and the public can also register to attend in-person here. Media who would like to request credentials to attend and cover the program must RSVP no later than Feb. 5 to Maria Peña at mpena@loc.gov.
The Law Librarian of Congress Aslihan Bulut and Counselor to the Chief Justice Judge Robert M. Dow Jr. will introduce the program.
Kagan, born in New York in 1960, has been a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010. She is a graduate of Princeton, Oxford and Harvard Law School. She clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 1980s.
After briefly practicing law at a private firm in Washington, D.C., she became a law professor, first at theUniversity of Chicago Law Schooland later at Harvard Law School. She also served for four years in theClinton Administration, as associate counsel to the president and then as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. Between 2003 and 2009, she served as the dean of Harvard Law School. In 2009,President Barack Obamanominated her as thesolicitor general of the United States. A year later, the President nominated her as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on May 10, 2010. She took her seat on Aug. 7, 2010.
Kagan co-wrote “We Dissent,” a book published in 2022 about the Supreme Court’s landmark decision banning abortion, with Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen G. Breyer, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 through June 20, 2022.
The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States — and extensive materials from around the world — both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit at loc.gov; access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information at congress.gov; and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.
###
Media Contacts: María Peña, mpena@loc.gov, Brett Zongker, bzongker@loc.gov
Public Contact: Robert Brammer, rbram@loc.gov
Please request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at 202-707-6362 orADA@loc.gov.
PR 24-011
01/29/24
ISSN 0731-3527