Jennifer Mnookin, dean of University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, was flooded with texts and Facebook messages from her faculty within hours of the news that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had died.

Some professors speculated that two of the school’s alumni—Paul Watford and Jackie Nguyen, judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—could be nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Scalia. A day later, Watford and Nguyen landed on several short lists of potential nominees put forth by pundits and court watchers, giving rise to hope that the Los Angeles law school might have its first alum on the court.

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