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On graduation from Harvard, he was accepted as an instructor at the University of Chicago Law school where he also produced no written evidence of his work

Actually there is ONE exam, and a longer somewhat curious memo to students explaining and reviewing the exam. (Links are to pdfs.)

I say curious as I was once a student (though never a law student) and took many final exams. I never once received a memo from a professor or an instructor that discussed a final or any other test I took. It's also curious that there is exactly ONE. If this ONE survives, then why do other examples not survive? Was there only ONE?

Or maybe there was NONE? Has any student ever raised his hand and said that he got the curious memo from Instructor Barack Obama? I know Jack Cashill has analyzed the text of Dreams and strongly believes that Bill Ayers was its true author. I wonder if anyone has ever done a similar analysis of this ONE curious memo.

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Thanks providing the link to the "exam." It looks to be a competent exposition to me; which is not pass judgment on the point of view but only on the identification and exposition of the issues and references to precedents.

"On graduation from Harvard, he was accepted as an instructor at the University of Chicago Law school where he also produced no written evidence of his work."

" "Actually there is ONE exam, and a longer somewhat curious memo to students explaining and reviewing the exam. (Links are to pdfs.)"

The extraordinary thing is that, in his entire time as a "constitutional law lecturer," the Illegal did not write a single published article on constitutional law or, inddeed, any other legal matter. That's a totally remarkable accomplishment for a "scholar" at the Univesity of Chicago or, ideeed, any other prestigious university, all of which require regular scholarly output by their faculty members. It's a dead giveaway that he's an intellectually limited individual who was given a free ride and a sinceure, undoubtedly becaue he had some very powerful hidded sponsors, Tom Ayers, the chairman of Commonwealth Edison, the electric utility that powers all of the Chicago area, being only one of them.

Or maybe there was NONE? Has any student ever raised his hand and said that he got the curious memo from Instructor Barack Obama?

Perhaps the original provider of the exam identified themselves, maybe not. But wouldn't it be more likely, if the memo and exam are fake, that one of the former students in the course would have come forward to point this out? But no one has done this.

One thing is clear, if the exam and memo are real, the person who wrote them does have a mind for complex legal reasoning and should therefore presumably have done well on the LSAT and been an appropriate candidate for a decent law school.

If you are correct in pointing out that these sort of memos are unusual, then the fact that one exists points to its authenticity, since there would have been no need to ghost-write it.

I noticed that race-based affirmative action programs are one of the subjects discussed in the memo.

Um, wait a minute.

In law school, in-class final exams are administered anonymously. Students are assigned exam numbers and are forbidden to put their names or any other identifying information on the exam. This is done in order to ensure impartiality on the part of the professor grading the exam.

http://law.ggu.edu/media/law/documents/2011-2012%20Student%20Handbook.pdf -- see p. 68 on "exam numbers" given out every semester.

A final paper may not be anonymous. A final EXAM must be anonymous.

I don't know how it was done back at Harvard Law in the 1980s, but this is the way law schools do it today.

Here is a link to Harvard Law's exams from 1871 - 1998. I didn't see instructions regarding student anonymity, but there were the usual admonitions to think carefully before putting pen to paper.

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=law00237

It's also curious that there is exactly ONE. If this ONE survives, then why do other examples not survive? Was there only ONE?

Constitutional Law

2003 Final Exam
2002 Final Exam
2001 Final Exam
2000 Final Exam
1999 Final Exam
1998 Exam
1997 Final Exam | Answer Memo
1996 Final Exam | Answer Memo

Racism and the Law

1994 Syllabus