War Powers in the 21st Century
John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley where he has been on the faculty since 1993. He is the co-director of the Korea Law Center and also acts as faculty director for the California Constitution Center and the Program in Public Law and Governance.
Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University. Between college and law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Professor Yoo clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96 under Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers.
Yoo is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento in Italy, and he has also been a visiting professor at Keio Law School in Japan, Seoul National University in Korea, Chapman Law School, the University of Chicago, and the Free University of Amsterdam. Professor Yoo also has received the Paul M. Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.
He is the author most recently of Point of Attack: Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare (Oxford University Press, 2014). His new book, Embrace the Machines: Drones, Cyberwar, and Coercion is forthcoming in spring 2017.
Professor Yoo's Athenaeum talk co-sponsored by the Salvatori Center’s Lofgren Program in Constitutionalism.
(Information adapted from the Berkeley Law faculty pages.)
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