USA HISTORY

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (1992 2013)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

[SOURCES]
What is the central idea of “Harvard Law Review Achievement”?

(A) Barack Obama becomes the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review.

(B) Barack Obama marries Michelle Robinson and has two children.

(C) ** Barack Obama receives honors at Harvard, but follows his passion to help people.

(D) Barack Obama follows his passion of fighting for civil rights.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2, 500 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School.

Concept note-2: -Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his first two years in office. The main reforms include: the Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as “the ACA” or “Obamacare", the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010.

Concept note-3: -In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Concept note-4: -The remaining twelve editors are selected on a discretionary basis. According to the law review’s webpage, “Some of these discretionary slots may be used to implement the Review’s affirmative action policy.” The president of the Harvard Law Review is elected by the other editors.