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Originally Posted by buckman

I want to hear more about her "significant research". I did some "significant research" of my own and I'm not impressed. Empty suit comes to mind.

She has stated that she has never practiced law in Ma too after being cornered into saying she has not passed the Ma. bar. Wait for it....

According to the Washington Post:

Regardless of whether Warren’s self-proclaimed Native American background helped her win coveted jobs with UPenn and Harvard, she had some notable accomplishments going for her. For example, she did groundbreaking research while teaching at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law on how the nation’s bankruptcy code was affecting average families.

Warren and two colleagues studied court records to determine who was filing for bankruptcy and why. They found that single catastrophic events -- such as medical problems or unemployment -- rather than dereliction often caused working-class families to renege on debt.

This work put Warren at the cutting edge of a new school of legal thought that emphasized real impacts on people’s lives rather than mere theory. It also led to her first book, “As We Forgive Our Debtors,” which won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award after it was published in 1989.

Warren went on to write bankruptcy- related articles for The Yale Law Journal in 1992, and Michigan Law Review in 1993. She didn’t write another book until 2000, five years after she started working at Harvard and 11 years after her first book.

Source: Did Elizabeth Warren check the Native American box when she ‘applied’ to Harvard and Penn? - The Washington Post

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