Obama was editor of Columbia law review.. very lack luster. I wonder if you have to attend Columbia to be law review editor?
Harvard Law Review, wasn’t it? Or at least that is what I seem to remember.
Are you saying Columbia as well?
Anyone with the info?
No, that was the Harvard Law Review. He supposedly got his lesser BA degree at Columbia, his Juris Doctor Law Degree at Harvard where he was editor and then president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama was editor of Columbia law review.. very lack luster. I wonder if you have to attend Columbia to be law review editor?
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He was president of Harvard Law review. A nothing unearned position.
The rules for law review have changed from the old old days.
only ten people are competing in the traditional way, grades and competitive writing.
Sort of like life: 20% pulling the cart for the other 80% Prepares them early to know who their masters really are...
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