Eugene Volokh

Eugene Volokh (born 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. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... February 29 is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 306 days remaining. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... // A law school is an institution where future lawyers obtain legal degrees. ... The Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA School of Law The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university located in the residential area of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... The Volokh Conspiracy is a weblog which mostly covers United States legal and political issues, generally from a libertarian or conservative perspective. ... The media of the United States consists of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites. ...

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. 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 with at least one child. Motto: Oblast Municipality Municipal government City council (Київська Міська рада) Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky Area 800 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 2,660,401 100% 3,299/km² Founded City rights around 5th century 1487 Latitude Longitude Area code +380 44 Car plates AA (before 2004: КА,КВ,КЕ,КН,КІ) Sister cities Athens, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, ChiÅŸin... For programming in music, see Programming (music). ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... Juris Doctor (J.D.) is a first degree in law offered by universities in a number of countries, most notably the United States. ... In the United States, a law clerk is a person who assists a judge in researching issues before the court and in writing opinions. ... Judge Alex Kozinski Judge Alex Kozinski (born July 23, 1950) is a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a popular essayist. ... The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: District of Alaska District of Arizona Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California District of Hawaii District of Idaho District of Montana District of... Sandra Day OConnor (born March 26, 1930) is a former American jurist and politician who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. ... The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the judicial branch of the United States federal government. ...

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. Libertarianism is a political philosophy[1] advocating that individuals should be free to do whatever they wish with their person or property, as long as they do not infringe on the same liberty of others. ... This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. ... Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, declares the necessity for a well regulated militia, and prohibits infringement of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. // Text The Second Amendment, as passed by the House and... Freedom of religion is the individuals right or freedom to hold whatever religious beliefs he or she wishes, or none at all. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Proposition 209, a voter referendum passed in 1996, outlaws discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. ... Sexual harassment is harassment of a sexual nature involving a range of behavior from mild transgressions and annoyances to serious abuses which can even involve forced sexual activity. ...

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. Wikipedia (IPA: , or , else ) is an international Web-based free-content encyclopedia project. ...

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, was a Supreme Court clerk. The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with a worldwide average daily circulation of more than 2. ... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former The New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ...

Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. Logo of Huffington Post The Huffington Post (often shortened to HuffPost or HuffPo) is a political group weblog founded by Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer. ...

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)

Articles (partial list)

• Crime-Facilitating Speech, 57 Stanford Law Review 1095 (2005)
• The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, 116 Harvard Law Review 1026 (2003)
• The Commonplace Second Amendment, 73 NYU Law Review 793 (1998)
• Lawsuit, Shmawsuit, 103 Yale Law Journal 463 (1993) (with Alex Kozinski)

Judge Alex Kozinski Judge Alex Kozinski (born July 23, 1950) is a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a popular essayist. ...

See also

• The Volokh Conspiracy

The Volokh Conspiracy is a weblog which mostly covers United States legal and political issues, generally from a libertarian or conservative perspective. ...

External links

• Volokh's Webpage at UCLA