U.S. Supreme Associate Justice Elena Kagan speaks with law students at Notre Dame

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - U.S. Supreme Associate Justice Elena Kagan spoke to law students on campus at the University of Notre Dame Friday.

Kagan participated in a conversation with Notre Dame Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole, in the first event for the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum. 

It was held at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Topics of the discussion included the Biden Administration's Student Loan Debt Relief Program, her writing, gerrymandering, religion, and many other things.

She stated, “It’s a crucial thing about our legal institutions that the public have confidence in them. and that confidence is of a particular kind. I think people have no right to expect that they’re going to agree with all the decisions the courts make, I mean quite the contrary, very often courts have to do things that a majority of the public doesn’t like. but people do want courts and have a right to expect that courts act like courts.”

Kagan was nominated to the Supreme Court by former President Obama in 2010.

Kagan is a graduate of Princeton University, Oxford University and Harvard Law School.