First, Michael Klarman -- "a plum catch" by Boston.com's assessment from UVA. Then the slightly more famous Cass Sunstein from Chicago. Then, Harvard raided competitor Yale's pantry, and came away with Anne Alstott.

Harvard Dean Elena Kagan touted the new hires in press releases, which the student newspaper just couldn't let slide. Proving its sense of humor, it let loose with satire:

In an Onion-esque news story titled "Dean Kagan Hires Every Law Professor in the County," the paper noted that "the new additions will cause the law school's faculty payroll to balloon from $30 million to $9 billion," but that Kagan was unconcerned. "This university has upwards of 40 billion kazillion dollars," the satire read. "Also, we'll just hit up some alumni." Harvard Law School spokesman Mike Armini was happy to play along, jesting that Harvard's hiring binge had just begun. "Why stop there?" he quipped. "Law is increasingly connected to so many other fields, so we'll be raiding the business and medical schools next."

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