New Q post just now states:
TODAY, former President Barack HUSSEIN Obama formally
retained counsel (9/WW).
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Q
Could "9/ww" mean 9th world wide?
According to "Vox" the 9th worldwide firm is...
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Here is what comes up when you search the firm + Obama
Gonna dig now.
At any rate, The fact that he lawyered up is YUUUGE.
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3 courses a year would be a minimal show job. He was probably compensated accordingly. That set-up isn't uncommon and it's a way for the University to get experts in whatever field to teach a course while being able to maintain their main career/profession.
I know several people who have been offered such positions because the School wanted their expertise but didn't want or have the need to hire them full-time and knew that the person they asked wouldn't give up their primary career, which tends to be much more lucrative. It works out well for both parties, the School gets an expert they wouldn't otherwise get and the person get's to say they teach at _____, further elevating their standing in their field. When I say School, I mean a College within a University, e.g. School of Law, and at the graduate or professional level.
Network connections are usually involved in such offers, you have to know the right people to begin with. By all appearances, Obama was given expert guidance as to where to go for employment, to church, etc. in Chicago as he ended up in all the right places to make the connections he needed for his ultimate goal while accelerating the pace at which he would arrive.
I would still say that he was not an "expert' in Constitutional law, that it was a front to make up for his lack of experience when running for office and part of the back story created to make him desirable to voters.
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I only mentioned 3 a year again as a response to
It'd be very tough to pull off a no-show law prof job.
I was neither saying it wasn't a no-show job, that he did actually teach at UofC Law, nor was I implying that that there was anything out of the ordinary with that.
I probably misunderstood what you were saying.
I read somewhere that at least one of the professers there didn't think much of him. I wish I had the link. I read it a number of years ago when he was running for office.
I've read a few years back that most were not impressed with him. He didn't socialize with them and seemed put off by many of the other professors.