What was Ted Cruz like at Harvard Law?

CAMBRIDGE — As the lights rose, Ted Cruz held center stage, dressed in black and kneeling at a bedside. The first-year student at Harvard Law School delivered his lines with the emotions of a man gripped by anger, fear, and worry for his reputation. “Do you understand that I have many enemies? read more

By most accounts, he was an incredibly arrogant asshole, among other unflattering adjectives. When his former classmates at Princeton and Harvard were interviewed, certain words kept repeating. read more

Sen. Ted Cruz was ambitious, charismatic and eager to debate liberals when he attended Harvard Law School from 1992 to 1995. The Boston Globe interviewed Cruz’s classmates and decided he wasn’t much different than he is today. Cruz, R-Texas, is a Tea Party Republican who seeks the limelight, the story says. read more

In his second year, Cruz joined the Law Review and became a principal editor. He was also a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review (where he is listed as “Rafael E. Cruz”) and joined the conservative Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (“R. Ted Cruz”). Cruz focused primarily on his studies, and the law journals. read more