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Take a class with Yoo, tell your friends you met a conservative

By Richard Binder

That's what the controversial law professor thinks may be behind the high enrollment in his classes at Berkeley.  So says a recent profile in the Los Angeles Times.

Yoo likens his presence at the liberal enclave to "West Berlin during the Cold War, a shining beacon of capitalism and democracy surrounded by a sea of Marxism," and feels "vindicated" by the recent Department of Justice decision that neither he nor his former boss Jay Bybee will face prosecution for advice to the Bush administration that redefined torture as pain resulting in organ failure or death.

Many of Yoo's faculty colleagues, including current U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Goodwin Liu, have spoken out on the need for representing a wide range of viewpoints.

Full story here.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).