Reply #9: Personal info. on John Yoo

[Judi Lynn]

John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers.

Professor Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard. Between college and law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C. Professor Yoo was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal, and after graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

He has been a visiting professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. He received a UC Berkeley Junior Faculty Research Grant for 1997-98 and a John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship for 1998-99. In 2001, Professor Yoo received the Paul M. Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. From 2000-2001 he was the director of Boalt Hall’s international legal studies program.
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http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/yoo/

This would be a great time for a move away from the Neo-Con death grip on the world.