This is the problem I have with the Dean's statement:
"Was there clear professional misconduct—that is, some breach of the professional ethics applicable to a government attorney—material to Professor Yoo’s academic position? Did the writing of the memoranda, and his related conduct, violate a criminal or comparable statute?"

He is talking about two different subjects. Whether or not Yoo breached the Professional Ethics required of lawyers is quite different than violating a criminal statute. We can sit around and wait to see if he is criminally indicted and found guilty... but that does not mean he should retain his law license until that indictment occurs. If someone were to file a complaint against Yoo in the bar where he is licensed... and if after an investigation it is decided that he is "unfit" to hold a legal license in that state...he will be disbarred. I doubt if any law school would retain a law professor who no longer has a law license... it is a good first start while we wait out the .... what did Rumsfeld call it "a long hard slog"?

Posted at April 11, 2008 3:46 PM in response to Berkeley Law Dean: Yoo Was Not The Decider

Hi EJ,
I am representing 2 gitmo prisoners. I signed up for the DOD press releases because they announce the transfer of prisoners there first... they also announce all of the dead soldiers there.
It is very sobering to get those emails sometimes a few in a given day listing the young (they are always so young) men and women along with their age and hometown... day after day... week after week.
Hope this finds you doing well... we met regarding the Jane Doe case.

Posted at March 20, 2008 12:05 PM in response to Hundreds of flags .... 3,982 Americans dead