The friggin University of Chicago. The heart and soul of Fischel, Easterbrook, Becker, Posner, Milton Friedman, Law and Economics, free-market economics...the belly of the beast for thinking legal conservatives, economic conservatives, and all that comes with it.
That's actually pretty fascinating.
Anyway, this was sparked by a letter from one of Andrew Sullivan's readers I saw today:
The Law School is a notoriously conservative place, famous as the home of Chicago School of legal analysis (i.e., law and economics). While there are certainly progressive students and professors there, anyone at the law school would have to confront conservatism on a daily basis. As such, Obama had to hone his arguments to the conservative environment in which he taught. That is not to say that his time there turned him conservative - rather, it helped him to articulate his progressive arguments in such a way that he could convince conservatives.
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Maybe. Maybe not.
Didn't he just teach a con law class or two on a part-time basis? As a law professor, you control the class room and the discussions that take place. He may have had very little interaction with the other (conservative and prominent) professors of the school.
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