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Eugene Volokh

Prof. Eugene Volokh

Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Topics: Civil Rights • Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Free Speech & Election Law • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Intellectual Property • Labor & Employment Law • Religious Liberties • Criminal Law & Procedure

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 (7th ed. 2020) and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2016), as well as over 90 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute; a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel; and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a Weblog that was hosted by the Washington Post and is now at Reason Magazine (http://reason.com/volokh). In addition to his academic work, he has also filed briefs in more than 125 appellate cases throughout the country since 2013, and has argued in over 30 federal and state appellate cases.

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Freedom of Thought

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Amendments

Amendments

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