John Yoo

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John Yoo has been a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law since 1993. He served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He also served as general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1996. He is the author of Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush (Kaplan Publishing, 2010), War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), and The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Experience

  • Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-present
  • Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, 2003
  • Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 2001-2003
  • General Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 1995-96
  • Law Clerk, Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court, 1994-95
  • Law Clerk, Judge Laurence H. Silberman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1992-93

Education

J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., history, Harvard University

All Items by John Yoo

Politics and Public Opinion / Judicial
How to end judicial supremacy
John Yoo | National Review
January 09, 2012

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich knows how to press the Left's soft spots. Even as he fades from the front of the Republican presidential pack, he deserves credit for attacking the judiciary's seizure of power over some of society's most important issues. Choosing new Supreme Court justices will be one...

Foreign and Defense Policy / International Organizations
Prosecuting the peace
John Yoo | The Wall Street Journal
January 07, 2012

War is either such an evil in itself that the United States should withdraw from its dominant world position or greater causes—such as advancing human freedom—can make war necessary. Two books on justice in war implicitly probe this profound choice.

Foreign and Defense Policy / Regional / Middle East & North Africa
An unavoidable challenge
John Yoo | National Review
December 29, 2011

Because of the Obama administration's reluctance to confront this looming threat, others—such as the Republican presidential candidates—must begin preparing the case for a military strike to destroy Iran's nuclear program.

Foreign and Defense Policy / Regional / India/Pakistan/Afghanistan
The rush for the exits in Afghanistan and Iraq
John Yoo | American Enterprise Institute
November 10, 2011

Serious Republican candidates should be able to agree that as president, they will reverse the Obama administration’s headlong rush for the exits in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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