[Conscience of a Conservative]

That said, knowing Harvard’s propensity for hiring pedigreed academics, it’s very hard to think she was so exceptional that she was hired for anything except her claimed ethnic heritage.

By the time she was hired by Harvard, she was already a tenured professor at another Ivy League law school (UPenn). So, even though she did not graduate from a top law school, she did have something of an academic pedigree by the time HLS hired her.

[Pearls Before Swine]

By the time she was hired by Harvard, she was already a tenured professor at another Ivy League law school (UPenn). So, even though she did not graduate from a top law school, she did have something of an academic pedigree by the time HLS hired her.

That's a bit reassuring. At least she had more of an academic pedigree than that famous Constitutional Law instructor at University of Chicago. Still, judging from how they mentioned her as a diversity hire, it's hard not to think her claim affected the decision to select her.