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...English teacher and senior year academic advisor, “but he also had time to be a friend and an amusing conversationalist ... but he had a hell of a lot of responsibilities.”Upon graduation from Harvard Law School in 1978, Sunstein clerked for Thurgood Marshall and later became a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he befriended Obama. Last year he left the University of Chicago to return to Cambridge and took up a post advising Obama during his presidential campaign. David A. Schkade, a professor at the University of California, San Diego...
...been completely secured, Oliveira said. He added that the donation was unaffected by current economic conditions and will be divided between funding the professorship and related activities, though administrators have not yet determined how the funds will be divided. Until Tribe retires, the professorship will be called the Thurgood Marshall Professorship of Constitutional Law. Upon his retirement the position will be renamed the Laurence H. Tribe Professorship of Constitutional Law. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, is the second most cited constitutional scholar in the country and garnered increased media attention during the past two years as a result...
...Certainly, having a black president will be a first. But just because you are a first for blacks does not mean blacks are first for you. For example, Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, informed on other blacks at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He also hated black America’s Saul of Tarsus and shining prince, Malcolm...
Jackson attended Brown before receiving a joint degree from Harvard Business School and the Law School in 1982. After graduating, Jackson clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...
...Elena has done them over the past six years,” he said.During her time at the Law School, Kagan has taught constitutional and administrative law. She became dean after just two years as a full professor, succeeding Robert C. Clark in 2003.Kagan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Abner Mikva before serving as a domestic policy adviser under President Clinton.The announcement marks a continuation of Obama’s push to put in place his cabinet and key advisers as soon as possible. By contrast, President Bush’s first solicitor...