Kenji Yoshino

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Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. [http://www.abovethelaw.com/2008/02/nyu_hires_kenji_yoshino_as_per_1.php NYU Hires Kenji Yoshino as Permanent Faculty Member] ] Formerly, he was the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and society. He is actively involved with several social and legal issues and is also an author.

Education

Yoshino graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, obtaining a B.A. in English literature "summa cum laude" in 1991. Between undergraduate years Yoshino worked as an aide for various members of the Japanese Parliament. He moved on to Magdalen College at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, attaining a M.Sc. in management studies (industrial relations) in 1993. In 1996 he earned a J.D. from Yale, where he was an editor of the "Yale Law Journal".

Career

He was soon published in multiple major law reviews. From 1996 to 1997 Yoshino served as a law clerk for federal appellate judge (and ex-Yale Law School Dean) Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1998 he received a tenure-track position at Yale Law School as an associate professor, and in 2003 the school bestowed a full professorship. In 2006 he was named the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law; holding the endowed chair named for his close mentor, the prodigy and preeminent legal scholar he clerked for after receiving his juris doctor.cite press release |title=Announcement of Professor Kenji Yoshino as Inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law |publisher=Yale Law School |date=2006-10-14 |url=http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Deans_Office/Calabresi_Yoshino.pdf ] Courts throughout the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have referenced Yoshino's work.

Yoshino is also a prolific author in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "Los Angeles Times", "The Boston Globe", "The Village Voice", "The Nation", "The Advocate", "Slate", and FindLaw. Additionally, he is active as a speaker at various conferences on an assortment of legal and social issues. Yoshino is an expert guest on various public and commercial television and radio programs.

His book "" was published in 2006. It is a mix of argument intertwined with pertinent biographical narratives.cite news |last=Yoshino |first=Kenji |title=The Pressure to Cover |publisher=The New York Times Magazine |date=2006-01-15 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15gays.html?ex=1294981200&en=089f6480fcfeb0e0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss ]

Major areas of interest include social dynamics, conformity and assimilation, as well as queer (LGBT) and personal liberty issues. He has been a co-plaintiff in cases related to his specialties. A Japanese American, and out gay man, Yoshino also writes poetry for personal enjoyment or at least as yet has not published. [Yoshino, Kenji. [http://www.courttv.com/talk/chat_transcripts/2006/0217covering-yoshino.html A Conversation with Yale Law Professor Kenji Yoshino, Author of 'Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights'] , transcript of Court TV program (February 17, 2005). Retrieved on May 17, 2007.]

He served as a visiting professor at NYU Law School during the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school terms. In February 2008, he accepted a full-time tenured position at NYU Law School, beginning in 2008 as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law.

Major works

* (1996). "Suspect Symbols: The Literary Argument for Heightened Scrutiny for Gays" [http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/articles/suspect_symbols.pdf] . "Columbia Law Review", 96 (1753).
* (1997). "The Lawyer of Belmont" [http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/articles/lawyer_of_belmont.pdf] . "Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities". 9 (183).
* (1998). "Assimilationist Bias in Equal Protection: The Visibility Presumption and the Case of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" [http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/articles/assimilationist_bias_in_equal_protection.pdf] . "Yale Law Journal" 108 (487).
* (2000). "The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure" [http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/articles/epistemiccontract.pdf] . "Stanford Law Review", 52 (2).
* (2000). "The Eclectic Model of Censorship". "California Law Review", 88 (5).
* (2002). "Covering" [http://www.yalelawjournal.org/archive_abstract.asp?id=292] . "Yale Law Journal", 111 (769).
* (2006). "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights". Random House. ISBN 0-375-50820-1.

References

External links

* [http://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=cv.main&personID=22547 NYU School of Law profile]
* [http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/ Personal website]
* [http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/KYoshino.htm Yale Law profile]