Comments on Barack Obama as a Law Professor

Above the Law ^ | Feruary 8, 2008 | former law students

[oblomov]

Interesting comments about Obama as a law professor in the comments section of this article. We should be careful to take these comments with a teaspoon of salt unless they can be verified.

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I took his Voting Rights Class at UChicago Law at the crack of dawn. His class was still packed. He was incredibly charasmatic and engaging, but is really, really, far-left liberal in the socialism completely rocks kind of way. I got a 80+ from him though, so no specific dirt-dishing on my part!

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I took Con Law III, Equal Protection and Due Process, from Obama. He was an excellent teacher (not my favorite) and was very even-handed in his approach to very sensitive topics. He often took some pleasure in educating the more liberal students who were attracted to his class.

I still remember during our discussion of Casey and other abortion cases, he asked the class whether anyone had ever seen a fetal ultrasound. One of the students had a child. He then asked whether what was on the ultrasound at 20 weeks (pre-viability) was a human life. He didn't really get an answer.

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Ok, indirect story, but I trust the source.

Election Law (others upthread called it "Voting Rights" but source says it's Election law on the transcript) at UofC with Obama. Solid professor with good speaking skills (duh) and fair questions.

Some liberal bias apparent. When conservative students would make a conservative point or argue with him, Obama would rarely directly rebut but instead almost always called on a group of students nicknamed the "liberal elite" to rebut them, typically giving them the final word.

He presented (I won't say "advocated") a wacky idea of padding vote tallies to counter disenfranchised voters...

[oblomov]

Nothing here challenges my observation about Obama being far to the left.

[Bahbah]

I think that vote padding thing may be the Lani Guinier scheme.

[Sols]

This one made me laugh.

“One is tempted to question the wisdom of a candidate who voluntarily braved those frigid mornings only to spend an hour or two in a room with a bunch of nerdy Chicago gunners.

Then again, his wisdom is clearly more sound that the candidate who has remained married to Bill Clinton.”

[Zhang Fei]

You don't have to ask his law students to figure out how liberal he is. His Senate voting record is among the most liberal around. The liberal ADA had his liberal credentials rated at 95 whereas McCain the RINO was a 15. The conservative ADA had McCain's conservative creds at 65 and Obama at 8.

[TheThinker]

He presented (I won't say "advocated") a wacky idea of padding vote tallies to counter disenfranchised voters...

Of course, he advocates it. The only reason someone would bring up something that is cheating and advocates the rule of the few, an anti-democratic concept and an old democrat trick, is to get liberal students behind the idea. I'm sure he wouldn't mind using foreign law to affect the outcome of Supreme court cases. He's a constitutional lawyer that plays it so cool and is so smooth but he is a nightmare for our democracy.

He must be stopped. And if that means breaking some social taboos and taking the flack from democrats and liberals and accused of being racist, then so be it.

Conservatives have been backed into a corner and liberals have played it brilliantly. We have to accept it and acknowledge it. Now we need brilliance from the conservative faithful.

[Azzurri]

When conservative students would make a conservative point or argue with him, Obama would rarely directly rebut but instead almost always called on a group of students nicknamed the "liberal elite" to rebut them, typically giving them the final word.

Not surprised. This is the M.O. for liberal professors.