Background
Yoo, John Choon was born on June 10, 1967 in Seoul, South Korea. Son of John H. and Sook (Hee) Yoo.
( An American President faces war and finds himself hamst...)
An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself above the law, and threatening to "breakdown constitutional safeguards." One could be forgiven for thinking that the above describes former President George W. Bush. Yet these particular attacks on presidential power were leveled against Franklin D. Roosevelt. They could just as well describe similar attacks leveled against George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and a number of other presidents challenged with leading the nation through times of national crisis. However bitter, complex, and urgent today's controversies over executive power may be, John Yoo reminds us they are nothing new. In Crisis and Command, he explores a factor too little consulted in current debates: the past. Through shrewd and lucid analysis, he shows how the bold decisions made by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR changed more than just history; they also transformed the role of the American president. The link between the vigorous exercise of executive power and presidential greatness, Yoo argues, is both significant and misunderstood. He makes the case that the founding fathers deliberately left the Constitution vague on the limits of presidential authority, drawing on history to demonstrate the benefi ts to the nation of a strong executive office.
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federal agency administrator law educator
Yoo, John Choon was born on June 10, 1967 in Seoul, South Korea. Son of John H. and Sook (Hee) Yoo.
Bachelor in History, Harvard University, 1989. Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1992.
Law clerk to Judge Laurence Silberman United States Court Appeals (District of Columbia circuit), Washington, 1992-1993. Law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas United States Supreme Court, 1994-1995. General counsel United States Senate Judiciary Committee, 1995-1996.
Professor law University California Berkeley Boalt Hall School Law, Berkeley, California, 1993-1994, 96—, director Advanced Law Program, since 2004. Director International Legal Studies Program, Boalt Hall School Law, 1999—2001. Deputy assistant attorney general, Office Legal Counsel United States Department Justice, Washington, 2001—2003.
Visiting professor Free University of Amsterdam, 1998. Visiting scholar American Enterprise Institute, since 2003. Visiting professor University Chicago, 2003.
Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Law University Trento, Italy, 2006. Fletcher Jones Distinguished visiting professor law Chapman University School Law, 2008—2009.
( An American President faces war and finds himself hamst...)
( An American President faces war and finds himself hamst...)
Fellow: Society of Historians of America Foreign Relations, Rockefeller Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations. Member: Berkeley Journal of International Law, National Constitution Center, The Federalist Society.