John Yoo
Biography
John Yoo is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute, and a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley where he supervises the Public Law and Policy Program among other programs at Berkeley Law. Concurrently, he is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Yoo has served in all three branches of government: as an official in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on national security and terrorism issues after the 9/11 attacks; general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; and as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and federal appeals Judge Laurence Silberman. He has been also a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, in Japan and South Korea, Israel, and Italy.
He is the author, coauthor, editor, and coeditor of thirteen books on constitutional law, international law, national security, and the Supreme Court including, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court (Regnery, 2023) which he coauthored with Robert J. Delahunty; Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power (All Points Books, 2020); and Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush (Kaplan Publishing, 2010). His commentary is regularly published in the popular press, including in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The recipient of the Federalist Society’s Paul M. Bator Award, he graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School.
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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Neoconclave Edition
Steven Hayward, John Yoo, and the pseudonymous Lucretia break down the week's top stories and continue a long-running argument about first principles.
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Law Talk: Does AI Dream of Constitutional Rights?
Welcome to Law Talk with Richard Epstein and John Yoo. Our show is hosted by Charles C. W. Cooke.
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Paul Gigot and John Yoo on Donald Trump, the Courts and Presidential Power
Donald Trump keeps testing the limits of his executive authority, and courts have been pushing back. Is a constitutional crisis on the horizon? On this episode of Potomac Watch, law professor John Yoo speaks to Paul Gigot about what could be a looming clash between the President and the Supreme Court.
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The Trump Administration's Judicial Standoff
John Yoo joins The Michael Medved Show to discuss the Trump administration's standoff with the judiciary.
WSJ Opinion: Are We Facing a Constitutional Crisis?
Wall Street Journal Opinion Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker interviews John Yoo about Trump's recent executive orders.
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Measuring the Limits of Trump’s Power With Constitutional Scholar John Yoo
John Yoo appears as a guest on Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri
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The Three Whiskey Happy Hour: Globull Threats to Liberty
A special mid-week holiday edition of the 3WHH.
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Band Reunion Time
John Yoo is back this week, bringing the 3WHH up to full strength again after last week’s astonishingly congenial episode, which can mean only one thing—not even high tariffs, which this week’s host (Steve) vainly tried to impose on ths discussion—could stop a vigorous free trade in ideas.
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