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He has taught at Harvard, Pepperdine, the U.S. Naval War College, and the University of Chicago.

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Sam is a Chicago native and college athlete, Sam played baseball for the University of Chicago and graduated with a degree in U.S. History.

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He works in academia at the University of Chicago and is the namesake behind the Paulson Institute there, which focuses on U.S. China relations.

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He also taught law at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, Georgetown and Stanford and work as an assistant attorney general and judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals before Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court.

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