Prof. Eugene Volokh

Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught criminal law, copyright law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (6th ed. 2016) and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2016), as well as over 75 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute; a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel; the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy; a Weblog that is now hosted by the Washington Post; and an Academic Affiliate for the Mayer Brown LLP law firm. In addition to his academic work, he has also filed briefs in about 70 appellate cases throughout the country, and has argued in 20 federal and state appellate cases.