President Obama is expected to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United States, according to published reports. The following Duke University legal experts are available to comment:
-- Neil Siegel is an expert in the areas of constitutional law and theory and the federal courts. He served as special counsel to Sen. Joseph R. Biden during the confirmation hearings of John G. Roberts and Samuel A. Alito. A former clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he also served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice. (919) 613-7157 or siegel@law.duke.edu.
-- Guy-Uriel Charles' scholarship focuses on constitutional law, voting rights, election law, race and the law, campaign finance and redistricting. The founding director of Duke's Center on Law, Race and Politics, he previously was a professor of law and the director of the Institute for Law & Politics, a senior fellow in law and politics at the Institute on Race and Poverty, and a law school faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Political Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is the co-founder of the Colored Demos blog (http://www.coloreddemos.blogspot.com/). (919) 613-7191 or charles@law.duke.edu.
-- Lisa Kern Griffin is an expert in white collar crime, the role of the jury system, evidence and federal criminal justice policy. A former federal prosecutor, she clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. (919) 613-7112 or griffin@law.duke.edu.