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In late 1988, Obama entered
Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the
Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,
[SUP][38][/SUP] and president of the journal in his second year.
[SUP][39][/SUP] During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a
summer associate at the law firms of
Sidley Austin in 1989 and
Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.
[SUP][40][/SUP] After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude[SUP][41][/SUP] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.
[SUP][38][/SUP] Obama's election as the
first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention
[SUP][39][/SUP] and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations,
[SUP][42][/SUP] which evolved into a personal memoir. The manuscript was published in mid-1995 as
Dreams from My Father.
[SUP][42][/SUP]
University of Chicago Law School and civil rights attorney
In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the
University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.
[SUP][43][/SUP] He then served as a
professor at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years-as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004-teaching
constitutional law.
[SUP][44][/SUP]
From April to October 1992, Obama directed Illinois's
Project Vote, a voter registration drive with ten staffers and seven hundred volunteer registrars; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, and led to
Crain's Chicago Business naming Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.
[SUP][45][/SUP] In 1993 he joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 13-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an
associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then
of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.
