Professor John Yoo

Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law, University of California

John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A member of the Pennsylvania State Bar, he was a law clerk for Appeals Court judge Laurence H Silberman and for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He also served for a time as General Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. From 2001 to 2003 he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Council in the Justice Department of President George W Bush. Yoo is the author of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (2005) and Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power, From George Washington to George W. Bush (2006).