Abstract
This paper attempts a discourse analysis of the 1990 issues of the Harvard Law Review edited by Obama as the first black President of the Law Review. Although Politico.com1 and The New York Times2 have reported on the significance of Obama’s previous presidency for his subsequent or current one, legal scholars are yet to explore what the discourse in Obama’s editorials says about his discourse as the first black president of the US. The task is made difficult because Obama did not sign any article for the Harvard Law Review during his presidency and does not dwell a lot on that period in his published memoirs. This conference presentation will therefore dwell mainly on his choice of authors for each issue of the journal, the articles that he selected along with the other editors and what they say about public issues, the article on Constitutional Physics that he was acknowledged as having helped Professor Tribe to write (Professor Tribe acknowledged his assistance and those of a few others in the paper), and possibly other unsigned articles that are attributable to him as well, starting with volume 102 when he was a freshman, continuing with volume 103 when he joined the editorial board and concluding with volume 104 which he presided over. Finally, I will try to show if there are any parallels and or contradictions between the two Obama presidencies.
Recommended Citation
Agozino, Biko
(2020)
"‘Obama’s Presidency of the Harvard Law Review Board and his US
Presidency’,"
African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies: Vol. 13:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.tsu.edu/ajcjs/vol13/iss1/1
