John Yoo
Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Korea Law Center
Faculty Director, Public Law & Policy Program
yooj@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-600-3217 | Fax: 510-642-3856
Faculty Support Contact: Drew Kloss
Areas of Expertise: Administrative Law | Constitutional Law | International and Comparative Law | International Business Transactions and Trade Regulation | National Security
Publications
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John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.??
His tenth book, Defender-in-Chief: Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2020.? Professor Yoo’s other books include Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War, Point of Attack: Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare, and Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George Bush.??
Professor Yoo has published more than 100 articles in academic journals on subjects including national security, constitutional law, international law, and the Supreme Court.? He also regularly contributes to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Review, among others.
Professor Yoo has served in all three branches of government.? He was an official in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on national security and terrorism issues after the 9/11 attacks.? He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.? He has been a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and federal appeals Judge Laurence Silberman.? He has been a visiting professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel, Keio University in Japan, Trento University in Italy, the University of Chicago, and the Free University of Amsterdam.
Professor Yoo supervises the Public Law and Policy Program, the Korea Law Center, and the California Constitution Center.? He also serves on the boards of the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Federalist Society’s Separation of Powers and Federalism Division, the Universidad Cientifica del Sur Law School, and the Asia-Pacific Law Institute at Seoul National University. He is a winner of the Federalist Society’s Paul Bator award.
Professor Yoo graduated from Yale Law School and summa cum laude from Harvard College.?
Education
A.B., Harvard University (1989)J.D., Yale University (1992)
Profiles
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John Choon Yoo is not teaching any Law courses in Fall 2022.
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Courses During Other Semesters
Spring 2022 220.1 sec. 001 Constitution in the Early Republic View Teaching Evaluation
220SP sec. 001 Advanced Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers View Teaching Evaluation
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