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Barack Obama, the law student, was not like you other law students.

From the same Jodi Kantor piece discussed in the previous post, I had to break out these law school nuggets.

?I thought of him much more as a colleague? than a student, said Laurence Tribe, a law professor at Harvard for whom Mr. Obama worked. ?I didn?t think of him as someone to send out on mechanical tasks of digging out all the cases.? Other students could do that, Professor Tribe added.

Other students.

Long before the presidential race, some around him seemed to resent his ability to galvanize a following. ?Bluebooking is not important for celebrities,? fellow students joked about him in the law review parody, referring to the tedious process of checking citations.

That's for you other students.

Full post as published by Althouse on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).