Comments on: Georgetown Shows Boalt Hall How You Do It

By: Melvin

Melvin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:58:41 +0000

Yoo is a worm. It seems to me that if someone could find that email from Addington to Yoo that says, “I know you think this stuff is illegal torture, but you really MUST put together some memo justifying this conduct because everybody’s afraid of going to jail,” then there would be a basis to “prosecute” him as a lawyer or to seek a tenure revokation.

But that request from Addington came over the phone, and the emails are lost anyway.

Yoo’s defense here is perfect: I actually believed that hooey I put in the memos.

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:04:17 +0000

lhp - Your 85, my 84: I think we are saying the same thing, basically - regardless of whether his Legal Opinions hold up, or not, Yoo is a Fake in the Academic Arts and Rigors of Law, imvho.

Berkeley would rightfully go to the wall for a Member in Good Standing with his/her Illustrious Academic Peer Group, but equally rightfully ‘remove’ any Member whose Considered Opinion was boot-strapped by Methods Injurious to the Integrity of the Academic System, as a whole.

If Plagarism can get a Tenured Professor fired, surely Making Shit Up qualifies, too!

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:49 +0000

If you check this thread, do you have links for this? Could you send the to proploosehead at gmail? Thanks

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:56:26 +0000

Sorry, LHP was sound asleep by thetime you typed that.

Yes, that would be a relvant provision to use with Yoo. I say without having looked at the case law related to thaat provision, which may tailor it’s meaning. I do not practice in Pa.

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:52:49 +0000

The link is at Peter’s #20 above

By: serge

serge — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:11:56 +0000

Hoorah…I attended Gtown, and my father taught philosophy there for over forty years. It has been a major thorn in my side that this shitstick was passed off onto students there.

I only wish that they had canned Jeanne Kirkpatrick a couple of decades ago.

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:23:49 +0000

Dean Edley;
Wrong is never right, torture is wrong. UC Berekeley is the best. Let’s keep it that way. Mr.Yoo has to go. Writing a brief to justify torture is imoral and illegal. You have no choice. When Mr. Yoo was given leave to work for the Whie House that was not a blank check by U.C. Berkeley to break the law. He knew that now he must pay the price. You owe him nothing.
Thank You,

By: mls78

mls78 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:30:55 +0000

Hmmmmm indeed.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:21:46 +0000

LHP: “You may recall that the Dean of Boalt Hall defended his decision to keep Yoo on because he felt that his actions away from campus should not be counted against him.”

Actually his extended time away from campus both while he was in the tenure application process, and while he was supposed to be serving the STUDENTS at Boalt…SHOULD be held against Yoo!

The tenure application process has almost never allowed Associate Professors to gain tenure if they are away more than one in the first six years at the UC. Yoo was away, as far as I can determine 3-4 years clerking for Justice Thomas and serving as Counsel to the Senate during the Clinton Impeachment. Somehow he received tenure in 1999, DESPITE THIS. There wasn’t even a delay to make him reacquire the time he was absent. Then he left Berkeley again when Bush was elected President. AND, when he was supposed to return to Berkeley at the end of his term with Bush…he didn’t return to Boalt…but became a visiting Professor at…the University of Chicago, The Free University of Amsterdam, and a think tank in Genoa, Italy. IOW he took a vacation!

And he still serves as a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute rather than devoting his full attention to teaching at Berkeley. Something is rotten at Boalt!

By: SunnyNobility

SunnyNobility — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:57:07 +0000

but THEY ARE A LAW SCHOOL FACULTY, they ought to be able to distinguish the Yoo situation, which involves a total deviation from normal academic standards for citation and support, from an invasion of free speech.

Indeed. Well done, LHP.