Barack Obama Blog Biography

1993: Barack Obama, graduate of Columbia University in New York and Harvard Law School in Boston, has joined the teaching staff at the University of Chicago Law School. During his time there, he’ll teach courses on due process and equal protection, voting rights, racism and law. Obama gave no indication that his stay would be long-term.

While at the University of Chicago, Mr. Obama will also work at the civil rights litigation firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. The firm also works in neighborhood economic development, an area very familiar to Obama and integral to the future of Chicago. Mr. Obama’s direction seems very clear: in his interview as a 29 year old law student at Harvard, he was pointed in his desire to learn the complexities of Chicago politics. Working at the firm will be a vehicle for these lessons.