Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review (Vol. 104, 1990) and subsequently a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School (1992-2004).
He he has no published legal scholarship. As he was famous for saying while president of the Harvard Law Review: "Just remember, folks, nobody reads it."
UPDATE: "Exclusive: Obama's lost law review article"
"But an unsigned - and previously unattributed - 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of work."
Yes, absolutely. He was the first African-American editor of the Review. There have been some online rumors that he was chosen due to his race, but Harvard Law School has stated that this is false. The editor of the Review was selected in a process where the race of those who applied was not known by the people making the choice; the final decision was based on merit, and focused on the quality of what each applicant submitted for consideration by the committee.
It is possible but not likely. Barack Obama was a graduate student at Harvard Law School, and there is some evidence he was a teaching assistant for Professor Laurence Tribe, who was a renowned legal scholar there. (Mr. Obama was helping with research for a book the professor was writing.) He may have taught an undergraduate class now and then, which graduate students often did. But Mr. Obama did teach for twelve years at the University of Chicago Law School.
As the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, he generally supervised the writings of others. But he did publish one article in the Harvard Law Review in 1990, a year before he received his degree.
Obama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review. I do not know how much editing he did in that position.
Yes, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 1991,
He was elected February 6, 1990 . I think he took office the next academic year. It is a one-year position.
Yes he did.
When he was a student at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Barack Obama was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review
Barack Obama had that honor.
Yes, President Barack Obama did get a degree at Harvard Law School, graduating in 1991. He was also the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review.
No, Barack Obama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review on February 6, 1990 for the 1990-1991 academic year.
Barack Obama was never the president of a college. But he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review when he was getting his law degree.
Barack Obama has received the Nobel Peace Prize. He also graduated with honors from Harvard and African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Yes, he was president of the Harvard Law Review starting in 1990.
that he was president of harvard law review
Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review journal before becoming president.
There is a difference between serving on Law Review (which Obama did at Harvard) and writing a law review article which has been published. I did a Westlaw search for Obama as author and came up with no Law Review articles written by him.
Most of his time was spent as editor of the Harvard Law review; he was the first African-American to hold this prestigious position.