Prof. Barack Obama Needs A New Job, So We Sent Around His Academic Résumé

Details

Publish Date:
January 20, 2017
Author(s):
Source:
The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Related Person(s):
Related Organization(s):

Summary

It’s official: The former law professor Barack H. Obama is back on the job market.

It can be tough out there for an academic who’s been out of the game for so long, and Mr. Obama probably hasn’t updated his curriculum vitae in a while. So we did it for him.

Mr. Obama now has been out of academe for as long as he was in it. If he wanted to become a full professor, he might have to pick up where he left off more than a decade ago, said Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School.

“He probably has to start at the pre-tenure stage as assistant or associate professor,” wrote Mr. Weisberg, “which is a little awkward for a 55-year-old.”

As for Mr. Obama’s future as an instructor, “I don’t see him teaching constitutional law, or at least writing in it, even though it’s his supposed specialty,” he said.

“He thinks the Constitution is about things like voting rights and fighting discrimination,” said Mr. Weisberg, tongue firmly in cheek, “whereas everyone knows that these days constitutional-law scholarship is either about theories of judicial review (better yet, meta-theories about theories of judicial review) or about fine linguistic parsing of the purported nuances of Supreme Court opinions.”

Read More