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Professor Volokh
Professor Volokh

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). Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Leap years Although the modern calendar counts a year as 365 days a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A law school (also known as a school of law or college of law) is an institution specializing in Legal education. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United He publishes the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is frequently cited in the American media. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of The Volokh Conspiracy is a Weblog which mostly covers United States legal and political issues generally from a Libertarian or conservative American media redirects here For the publisher of the same name see American Media (publisher.

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Biography

Volokh was born in the city of Kiev in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. Kiev, also known as Kyiv ( Ukrainian:, Kyiv, ˈkɪjiw Russian:, Kiyev; see also Cities' alternative names) is the Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 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. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S During this period, his achievements were featured in an episode of OMNI: The New Frontier, a television series hosted by Peter Ustinov. Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (ˈjuːstɪnɒf or /ˈuːstɪnɒf/ 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow In 1992, Volokh received a Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA School of Law. Juris Doctor (abbreviated JD or JD, from the Latin, Teacher of Law) is a first professional graduate degree and Professional 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. A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person who provides assistance to a Judge in researching issues before the Court and in writing opinions Alex Kozinski (born 23 July 1950 is a Romanian American jurist The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a federal court with Appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is an American Jurist. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. 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. Libertarianism is a term used by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which prioritize individual Liberty and seek to minimize or even abolish the Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined He is noted for his scholarship on the First and Second Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as on copyright law. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress The Second Amendment (Amendment II to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the pre-existing He advocates campus speech rights and religious freedom, and opposes racial preferences, having worked as a legal advisor to California's Proposition 209 campaign. Freedom of religion is the freedom of an individual or community in public or private to manifest religion or belief in teaching practice worship and observance Proposition 209 was a 1996 California ballot proposition which amended the state constitution to prohibit public institutions from considering 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. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed Slate is an English-language online current affairs and culture Magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael 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. Georgetown University Law Center ( Georgetown Law) is Georgetown University 's Law school, located in Washington D

Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post (often referred to on the Internet as HuffPo) is a liberal News Website and aggregated Weblog

Books

Articles (partial list)

See also

References

  1. ^ UCLA Magazine. Alex Kozinski (born 23 July 1950 is a Romanian American jurist The Volokh Conspiracy is a Weblog which mostly covers United States legal and political issues generally from a Libertarian or conservative The Contrarian. Retrieved on November 11, 2006.

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