Eugene Volokh
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Eugene Volokh (born Yevgeniy Volokh,[1] Russian: Евгений Волох, February 29, 1968) is an American legal commentator and law professor at the UCLA School of Law (located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles). He publishes the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is frequently cited in the American media.
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[edit] Biography
Volokh was born in the city of Kiev in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. He emigrated with his family to the United States at age seven. At age 12, he began working as a computer programmer; three years later, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Computer Science from UCLA. During this period, his achievements were featured in an episode of OMNI: The New Frontier, a television series hosted by Peter Ustinov.[citation needed] In 1992, Volokh received a Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA School of Law. He was a law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and later for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Since finishing his clerkship, he has been on the faculty for the UCLA School of Law. He is married and has two children.
Volokh is a libertarian-leaning conservative. He is noted for his scholarship on the First and Second Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as on copyright law. He advocates campus speech rights and religious freedom, and opposes racial preferences, having worked as a legal advisor to California's Proposition 209 campaign. He is a critic of what he sees as the overly broad operation of American workplace harassment laws, including those relating to sexual harassment.
On his weblog, Volokh addresses a wide variety of issues, with a focus on politics and law. He has criticized judicial citations of Wikipedia, arguing that information found on Wikipedia may be unreliable.
Volokh's non-academic work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Slate, and other publications. His mother, Anne Volokh, founded Movieline magazine (now called Hollywood Life) in 1985. His father, Vladimir Volokh, is a software engineer. His brother, Alexander "Sasha" Volokh, is a co-blogger at the Volokh Conspiracy and a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
[edit] Books
- Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, and Seminar Papers (Foundation Press 2003)
- The First Amendment: Law, Cases, Problems, and Policy Arguments (Foundation Press 2001)
[edit] Articles (partial list)
- Freedom of Expressive Association and Government Subsidies, 58 Stanford Law Review 1919 (2006)
- Parent-Child Speech and Child Custody Speech Restrictions, 81 NYU Law Review 631 (2006)
- Crime-Facilitating Speech, 57 Stanford Law Review 1095 (2005)
- The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, 116 Harvard Law Review 1026 (2003)
- Test Suites: A Tool for Improving Student Articles, 52 Journal of Legal Education 440 (2002)
- How the Justices Voted in Free Speech Cases, 1994-2000, 48 UCLA Law Review 1191 (2001)
- Freedom of Speech and Information Privacy: The Troubling Implications of a Right to Stop Others from Speaking About You, 52 Stanford Law Review 1049 (2000)
- A Common-Law Model for Religious Exemptions, 46 UCLA Law Review 1465 (1999)
- Freedom of Speech and Independent Judgment Review in Copyright Cases, 107 Yale Law Journal 2431 (1998) (with Brett McDonell)
- The Commonplace Second Amendment, 73 NYU Law Review 793 (1998)
- Cheap Speech and What It Will Do, 104 Yale Law Journal 1805 (1995)
- Lawsuit, Shmawsuit, 103 Yale Law Journal 463 (1993) (with Alex Kozinski)
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[edit] References
- ^ UCLA Magazine. The Contrarian. Retrieved on November 11, 2006.
