UH law prof to help Obama

A professor at the University of Houston Law Center is getting involved in the campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, the Houston Business Journal reports, but it's unclear in what capacity he will serve. Anthony Chase, an associate professor of law at UHLC who teaches contracts, communications law and entrepreneurship, owns ChaseSource, a Houston-based staffing and recruiting firm. He also was vice chairman and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, but resigned that position so he could help Obama win the presidency because the Federal Reserve prohibits its directors from engaging in partisan political activity. Chase has been a Fed director since 2001. He also owns ChaseSource, a Houston-based staffing and recruiting firm. Like Obama, Chase is also a graduate of Harvard Law School, although he graduated in 1981, a full 10 years before Obama completed his legal studies. Chase did not immediately return a call or e-mail for comment.
-- Jonathan Fox

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[Luke Gilman, Houston, TX]

Chase is still slated as teaching at UHLC in the fall so it's hard to tell how far afield his campaign duties will pull him, but I would not be at all surprised to see him find a spot in an Obama administration were he to win the Presidency.

In our contracts class in '07 we quickly discovered that when you were on point, working in an Obama reference could buy a few minutes of storytelling while you tried to figure out where his line of questioning was going.