John Yoo, Sai Prakash & Dean Reuter

"Presidential Power and Originalism"

Wednesday, October 7th

 12:15 pm

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John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. At Berkeley, Professor Yoo directs the Public Law and Policy program and the Korea Law Center. Professor Yoo has served in all three branches of government. He was an official in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on national security and terrorism issues after the September 11 attacks. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah. He has been a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and federal appeals Judge Laurence Silberman. He has been a visiting professor at Seoul National University, Trento University, University of Chicago, and the Free University of Amsterdam.

Sai Prakash's scholarship focuses on the separation of powers, particularly executive powers. He teaches Constitutional Law, Foreign Relations Law, and Presidential Powers at the University of Virginia Law School. Professor Prakash majored in economics and political science at Stanford University. At Yale Law School, he served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and received the John M. Olin Fellowship in Law, Economics and Public Policy. He subsequently clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Dean Reuter is General Counsel, Vice President & Director of the Practice Groups of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. He has served in two federal government agency Offices of the Inspector General, as Counsel to the Inspector General and Deputy Inspector General, responsible for policing the use of federal funds granted and contracted through those agencies. He was appointed by the President and served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and currently serves as an appointee on the U.S. Commission on Presidential Scholars.

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