Now that Elena Kagan is Obama's choice, I went looking for more information -- preferably not in the form of law review articles, which make my eyes glaze over.
While there's a lot of garbage out there, there's also a lot of good material making its way through the clutter.
Follow me past the jump if you feel like you don't know enough about Kagan.
For those interested in reading up on Obama's Supreme Court nominee, here are some useful links.
Eugene Volokh takes a look at Kagan's scholarship and comes away very impressed. According to him, her articles are well received and often cited -- and not just because of ideological affiliation.
Nate Silver takes a look at the value of Kagan's youth, using the VORP method gaining ground in baseball statistical analysis. He finds that over time, a younger justice would be more valuable even if they were less slightly less reliably liberal than an older justice.
Big Tent Democrat takes a look at Kagan's views on the "unitary executive" and comes away suitably impressed and not at all worried.
I'm still searching out more information on the nominee, but the more I read the more I like the pick. The Volokh link in particular reinforces what others are saying -- Kagan is a world-class legal scholar. Combine that with the opportunity to have her on the court for up to 30 or 40 years, and I think I am starting to like this choice a lot.
EDIT: lgmcp in the comments provides the link to the SCOTUSBlog treatise on Kagan, which is well worth the time.