Eugene Volokh
Legal scholar of the First and Second Amendments; founded The Volokh Conspiracy.
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Hoover Institution (Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow)
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- Eugene Volokh is an American legal scholar, born in Kyiv in 1968; his family moved to the United States when he was seven.
- He clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and then taught law at UCLA from 1994.
- He retired from UCLA in 2024 and became the Thomas M.
- Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
- He founded the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy in 2002.
Key facts
- Born
- 29 February 1968, Kyiv1
- Position
- Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (from 2024); Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA1
- Education
- BS in mathematics and computer science, UCLA, at 15; JD, UCLA (1992)1
- Clerkships
- Judge Alex Kozinski (Ninth Circuit); Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (Supreme Court)1
- Blog
- Founded The Volokh Conspiracy (2002)1
- Cited
- "The Commonplace Second Amendment" (1998), cited in District of Columbia v. Heller1
Roles
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- Hoover InstitutionOrganization
Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow · since 2024 source on Hoover Institution
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