Eugene Volokh

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Eugene Volokh (born Yevgeniy Volokh,^[1] 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 commonly cited in the American media.

1 Biography
2 Books
3 Articles (partial list)
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[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 affirmative action, 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)