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Sunday, April 20, 2008

National Lawyers Guild Calls for Dismissal of Boalt Hall's John Yoo

The National Lawyers Guild has called on Boalt
Hall to dismiss professor of law John Yoo, the
co-author of the infamous Department of Justice
legal memoranda on the United States' use of torture
in interrogating enemy combatants.

The NLG press release of 4/9/2008 states that
"John Yoo should be disbarred and he should not be
retained as a professor of law at one of the country's
premier law schools. John Yoo should be dismissed from
Boalt Hall and tried as a war criminal."

To see how the legal blogs have responded (pro, against
and on the fence), see the Legal Blog Watch post of
4/15/3008.