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John Yoo is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Director of the Korea Law Center and the Public Law & Policy Program. He holds additional roles as a Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute (University of Texas at Austin), Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and will serve as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Texas’s School of Civic Leadership (Spring 2025).
Education: A.B. from Harvard University (1989), J.D. from Yale Law School (1992). His expertise spans constitutional law, national security, international law, and Supreme Court analysis. He has authored over 100 academic articles and multiple books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court (2023) and Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War.
Yoo’s career includes roles in all three branches of government: U.S. Department of Justice official post-9/11, General Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence Silberman. He has held visiting professorships at institutions worldwide, including Seoul National University and the University of Chicago.
Awarded the Federalist Society’s Paul Bator Award, Yoo supervises major legal centers and serves on boards such as the Pacific Legal Foundation and the Federalist Society’s Separation of Powers Division. His research emphasizes executive power, war powers, and international business transactions.
