President Barack Obama's White House will have enough academics among its top appointees to teach a full curriculum.

President Obama, who attended Harvard Law School, taught constitutional law at the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Chicago, while Joe Biden, the Vice-President, teaches the same subject at Widener 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ in Delaware.

Principal aides include former university presidents, deans and professors of law, economics, public policy, even physics (see below).

"Many of Obama's friends are drawn from the milieu in which he flourished as president of the Harvard Law Review," said Dan Markel, a professor of law at Florida State 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ who blogs about political matters at prawfsblawg.blogs.com. "Obama's one of them. So it's natural that the people he would gravitate to[wards] would be a little more academic than (George W.) Bush, who was hanging out on oil fields and in the Governor's office."

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BELTWAY BOUND: SOME ACADEMICS HEADED FOR THE WEST WING

Robert Gates Secretary of Defence - former head, Texas A&M 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

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Dennis Blair Director of National Intelligence - professor of strategic leadership, Dickinson College and US Army War College

Lawrence Summers Chair of National Economic Council - former head, Harvard 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Elena Kagan Solicitor General - dean, Harvard Law School

Steven Chu Secretary of Energy - professor of physics, 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of California, Berkeley and Nobel laureate

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Leon Panetta CIA Director - distinguished scholar, California State; professor, Santa Clara 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Christina Romer Chair of Council of Economic Advisers - professor of economics, 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of California, Berkeley

Dan Tarullo Federal Reserve Board - law professor, Georgetown 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Dawn Johnsen Head of Office of Legal Counsel - professor of law, Indiana 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ.

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