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Garden Rose -- gee, I thought you'd never ask

Harvard Law, graduated a few years before Obama came through

throughout my three years there, focused on Constitutional law, in particular civil rights and liberties

did a special appellate moot court competition (Harvard being known for the moot court competitions it requires of its students, which except only in special competitions which students have to compete to get into are trial court rather than appellate court competitions), on the constitutionality of the minority contractor set-aside provision then in effect in federal contracting -- got assigned to brief and argue that the provision was unconstitutional, and won, unanimous ruling of the three judges -- advancing the exact same argument on which the Supreme Court ultimately did rule the provision unconstitutional years later, in the 90s I believe

did my 3L paper, Harvard Law's equivalent of a master's thesis (something generally not found/required at other schools), in Jurisprudence, on Constitutional relativity -- that is, on (among other things) whether we could, or ultimately should, be able to keep the rights and liberties we have under the Constitution as it exists if we couldn't do as well drawing up a new Constitution from scratch in the present -- and got, literally, an A+, from a senior tenured jurisprudence professor who rarely even took on 3L papers, and who was reputed to have never given any grade higher than an A- (and that supposedly only once)

since then, more than another 30 years of reading and research -- has always remained an area of keen interest to me