On Hunter of Justice, my colleague Nan Hunter provides an updated list of law professors who are or will soon be working in the Obama administration. (H/T Brian Leiter)
On Hunter of Justice, my colleague Nan Hunter provides an updated list of law professors who are or will soon be working in the Obama administration. (H/T Brian Leiter)
TMK75 says:
Hardly shocking…
The administration is full of academics and politicians who have no real world experience and virtually bereft of people who have had to live in the real world of responsibility. Academics serve a useful function, but they should not be running our nation…
September 30, 2009, 8:01 amFederal Dog says:
I read that not even one member of Obama’s economic team has ever started and developed a business. I am no fan of Obama, but even I have a hard time believing that he would do anything so plainly foolish as to assemble a team of economic advisors who are completely lacking in business experience.
September 30, 2009, 8:23 amArthurKirkland says:
Academics serve a useful function, but they should not be running our nation…
Especially because it worked out so well when the anti-academic poster child was running the country.
September 30, 2009, 8:43 amMCM says:
The only way to get business experience is to START YOUR OWN business?
This is like complaining that NFL referees don’t have any football experience because they don’t own any football teams.
September 30, 2009, 8:47 amguy in the veal calf office says:
DOUGLAS KMIEC (Pepperdine) has been confirmed as Ambassador to Malta.
September 30, 2009, 9:12 amguy in the veal calf office says:
The only way to get business experience is to START YOUR OWN business?
That’s not what Federal Dog said. Who are you arguing with?
September 30, 2009, 9:13 amMatt says:
Federal Dog: Here’s some info on Obama’s economic advisory team (in case you’re curious).
September 30, 2009, 9:22 amthecabbage says:
And the prize is revealed. Quite the 30 pieces of silver?
/hyperbole
September 30, 2009, 10:21 amDave N says:
Federal Dog,
I am no fan of the President, either. But there are people on Matt’s link who have definite business experience. Hopefully, they will be listened to and are not there just for show.
September 30, 2009, 10:26 amFederal Dog says:
Based on the brief sketches there, I do not see where anyone has started and grown a business (the original issue). Did the one guy, e.g., found and grow Aetna? Or AT&T? Or google? Or Kodak?
Or were they appointed after the fact to help manage the businesses after they had already become global, multibillion-dollar corporations? I do not see anyone designated as founder.
The concern I saw expressed was about the ability of the Obama team to understand small businesses — how they are founded and conditions under which they prosper. The vast majority of businesses are not megacorporations, so practical understanding of conditions in which they thrive is at least as important as understanding international corporate practice.
September 30, 2009, 10:54 amMCM says:
Of course it is. Read what he wrote again.
The implication is quite obviously “the only way to get business experience is to start and develop a business”.
September 30, 2009, 12:53 pmFederal Dog says:
My wording was haphazard, and thus misleading. The concern that I saw expressed was that since no one had experience starting and growing a business, the ability of Obama’s advisors to understand conditions in which those processes are fostered was foolishly undercut.
You don’t learn those skills from a book or theory. You learn them from trial and error, and from practical financial consequences of both.
September 30, 2009, 1:04 pmDJ says:
What does it say about the President’s (and First Lady’s)former employer that no current University of Chicago professors made this list?
September 30, 2009, 1:47 pmLegal academia roundup says:
[...] Not very up to date, but still worth a look: long (and left-leaning) list of law profs who’ve joined the Obama administration [Hunter via Barnett, Volokh] [...]
August 3, 2010, 10:19 am