7 August
2005 Chatmag News-USINFO.STATE.GOV
John Yoo, a law
professor at the University of California at Berkeley and former deputy
assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department
of Justice, will be available online to answer questions about the future
of the Supreme Court during a moderated Internet chat August 10.
The moderated
Internet chat takes place at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) on Wednesday, August
10. To participate, you must register by sending an e-mail to iipchat@state.gov
before the beginning of the chat so that login information can be sent
to you. You are neither required nor encouraged to provide any personal
information.
You may also submit
questions in advance to iipchat@state.gov
After receiving
his law degree from Yale University, Yoo clerked for Judge Laurence H.
Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit.
He later served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
from 1995 to 1996 where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial
nominations. Yoo also clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Besides being
a professor at the University of California, Yoo is a visiting scholar
at the American Enterprise Institute. He also has been a visiting professor
at the University of Chicago and the Free University of Amsterdam and has
received research fellowships from the University of California at Berkeley,
the Olin Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Yoo’s areas of
expertise include foreign affairs, national security and constitutional
law. His new book, War, Peace, and the Constitution, will be published
in 2005 by the University of Chicago Press
His complete biography
and links to recent articles he has authored are available on Yoo’s Web
site.
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