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John Yoo

John Yoo

John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-2003, 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. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96, where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial nominations. Professor Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He was a visiting professor at the... Read full bio

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FOXNews.com, May 8, 2012
...Alan speaks with former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo about the 9th Circuit Court's decision to dismiss Jose Padilla's lawsuit against him...
New American, May 4, 2012
...interrogated continued Wednesday as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted qualified immunity to John Yoo, an official in the George W. Bush Justice Department. During his time Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Yoo gained...
New American, May 4, 2012
...interrogated continued Wednesday as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted qualified immunity to John Yoo, an official in the George W. Bush Justice Department. During his time Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Yoo gained...
Christian Science Monitor, May 2, 2012
...José Padilla, who claims he was tortured while being detained on allegations of terror-related activity, was suing John Yoo, the Bush aide whose memos set out broadly permissive standards for inflicting physical and mental harm during interrogations. A...
ABA Journal, May 2, 2012
...of harsh interrogation methods by U.S. authorities on terrorism suspects, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that John Yoo is immune from Jose Padilla's suit seeking a declaratory judgment that his constitutional rights were violated. Although...
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 2012
...panel on the role of the humanities in human rights. A discussion of the torture memos penned by John Yoo as a Justice Department lawyer under President George W. Bush brought the relationship between the humanities and human rights into focus. What to...
National Review, April 11, 2012
...Taming Globalization: International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order, by John Yoo and Julian Ku American progressives from Woodrow Wilson and John Dewey to Barack Obama and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have long expressed dissatisfaction with...
Dissident Voice, March 2, 2012
...underdog victories will be a thing  of the past, and billion-dollar campaign chests will produce a government of corporate choice. 2) John Yoo and Jay Bybee: These despicable attorneys were the authors of the legal memos, sponsored by George...
Harvard Law School - The Record, March 1, 2012
...still be doing more good than being a scumsucking lawyer, who no doubt will join the ranks of John Yoo in defending the State uber alles! No? Good. Now run along child...
Public Record, February 29, 2012
...modest relative to the alternatives.” Rumsfeld did not reveal to reporters that a young Justice Department attorney named John Yoo had just finished writing a legal memo that he sent to Pentagon General Counsel William “Jim” Haynes a day later...
Talking Points Memo, February 24, 2012
...Like Buck Turgidson Jr 862 pts  worried grandfather Career damaged, but hardly over. Job? Not likely. Next to John Yoo this is like jaywalking and it's not even clear he's going to get a ticket. share flag spam offensive disagree off topic Like Buck...
Zimbio, February 23, 2012
...conservative columnists at the Inquirer such as Rick Santorum, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and John Yoo, a Bush administration official who helped write the legal justification for “enhanced interrogation techniques”...
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, February 23, 2012
...Area conservative, UC Berkeley Law School’s Professor and special guest Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, John Yoo. Professor Yoo has a distinguished career in Law and Politics, having served as deputy assistant attorney general in...
Newport Beach Patch, February 22, 2012
...a federal judge overturned a California law banning same-sex marriage. She also participated in a Chapman debate with John Yoo, a Bush administration lawyer whose memos justified waterboarding. Before joining Chapman, she worked as an assistant U.S....