How much do people hate Boalt law professor John Yoo, and all that he stands for? His own Berkeley colleague Brad DeLong has written a compelling letter condemning Yoo and outlining reasons why UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgenau should fire him: I Never Thought I Would Grow Up to Be the Kind of Crank Who Wrote Letters to the Chancellor Trying to Get My Colleagues Fired...
Yoo is best known for being a key contributor to the PATRIOT Act and wrote memos -- aka the "Torture Memos" -- in which he advocated the possible legality of torture and that enemy combatants could be denied protection under the Geneva Conventions. He also has a prominent place on my list of People Who Suck.
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