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I feel like he’s the LeBron James of law teachers this summer. Every law school in the country will be trying to get him to teach at their school.
— Dean Michael Schwartz of the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law, commenting on Justice Anthony Kennedy’s “free agency” for teaching after his official retirement from the Supreme Court on July 31. Schwartz extended a teaching offer to Kennedy on the day he announced he was leaving the high court. Kennedy previously taught Constitutional Law at McGeorge Law from 1965 to 1988, and has taught in the school’s summer program in Austria ever since he became a justice.
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