Not technically. When Obama worked at Sidley and Austin law firm in Chicago, as a civil rights lawyer and teacher of constitutional law, he was assigned a personal mentor- Michelle Robinson, who married Obama, and became Michelle Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama II was a law professor at the University of Chicago for a few years and also a civil rights lawyer and a community orginizer.
His expertise was in civil rights law, and he handled cases related to discrimination.
According to Time magazine, he taught an Introduction to Constitutional Law, an advanced course (Constitutional Law III) and Current Issues in Racism and the Law. This course was among the most popular at the university; it drew upon Mr. Obama's experience as a civil rights attorney and also involved in-depth analysis of the intersection of criminal justice and race.
He was hired by Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a Chicago law firm specializing in civil rights law, and he began taking on cases.
Before he was president, Barack Obama was a community organizer and advocate for the poor; a civil rights lawyer; a professor of constitutional law; a state senator from Illinois and then a U.S. Senator.
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review was created in 1966.
University of Chicago Law School
President Obama's past occupations include: United States Senator from Illinois Illinois State Senator Teacher in Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School Civil Rights Attorney Before he attended law school he was a community organizer.
They are our rights. Like our right to live! We need the Civil Law because , I want my rights!
Obama had several jobs before becoming a U.S. Senator. He was a civil rights attorney and later became a professor of Constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school. He was also a community organizer.
Civil rights.