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• Rx for OLC: Pursue Integrity not Investigation

  Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:29 AM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  President Obama wisely signals that his administration will not start out by setting old scores with the Bush administration absent the most unmistakeable showing of criminal intent. His own appointments will determine whether history repeats itself. Read More...
  Filed under: Douglas W. Kmiec, OLC, Obama, war crimes, Bush, yoo

• Blame Berkeley

  Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 1:31 PM by Phillip Carter
  
  
  
  With all due respect to Chris Edley, whom I admire, and the University of California, to which I owe a great deal, I think Edley's position on John Yoo gets it exactly wrong — and epitomizes why people deride the "Ivory Tower" as insulated from reality. Read More...
  Filed under: Legal Academia, Torture Memos, yoo, Berkeley, professional responsibility

• Did Yoo and Bybee Violate Canons of Professional Ethics?

  Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 6:21 PM by Jack Balkin
  
  
  
  Over at The Nation , Stephen Gillers argues that the Yoo-Bybee torture memos violated canons of professional ethics , in part because Yoo and Bybee were confused about who their client was: How could two really smart guys authorize torture using "one-sided Read More...
  Filed under: yoo, legal ethics, Bybee

• Academic Freedom and Yoo

  Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:49 PM by Deborah N. Pearlstein
  
  
  
  I agree with Marty that the questions raised about Yoo's position at Berkeley are complex. I do not hesitate to hold Yoo ethically and morally culpable for what he did as a government lawyer. I am skeptical but I suppose open to specific persuasion that Read More...
  Filed under: Legal Academia, yoo, legal ethics, academic freedom, Berkeley

• Dean Edley and John Yoo

  Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:11 AM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  In addressing whether Professor Yoo should be open to revocation of tenure or other academic status inquiry, Dean Edley and Marty Lederman have thoughtfully defended academic freedom and the rule of law. I concur. That does not free us from the lessons Read More...
  Filed under: tenure, lederman, edley, yoo

• Yoo, Tenure, and the Academy

  Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 3:21 PM by Marty Lederman
  
  
  
  In response to many calls for possible dismissal (or at least investigation) of John Yoo at the Boalt (Cal Berkeley) School of Law, Dean Chris Edley yesterday issued a memorandum strongly rejecting the idea (albeit reserving some harsh words for Yoo's Read More...
  Filed under: Law school, John Yoo, Torture Memos, yoo, academic freedom

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