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    Name: Nicholas Ganjei on May 25, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: William Trachman on May 25, 2004
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    Name: Therese Lee on May 25, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: John Kim on May 25, 2004
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    Comments: how awesome, i'm signing both petitions. the need for polemic at boalt has never been stronger.
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    Name: Joseph Morris on May 25, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: While I think Yoo's memo sounds like it was spectacularly irresponsible, I think it's equally ridiculous to call for his resignation in response. That sends a McCarthy-ish message that you must think like "us" (whoever that is) or leave Boalt. Let's keep the conservatives here were we can get better at arguing against them, eh I don't know McGovern personally or what happened to precipitate the "April memo," but I have heard good things about his classes, I hope he's back next year.
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    Name: Kyle Robertson on May 25, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Bartley Brown on May 25, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Patricia Svilik on May 25, 2004
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    Name: Stephanie Dykeman on May 25, 2004
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: Here here! I was hoping something like this would come out. Both of the incidents described above upset me greatly, not because of the "offensive" speech but more because of the reactions of the student and faculty. I did not come to this school to see it delineate into a place where academic freedom and free speech were replaced with overly sensitive accusations of racism. Thank goodness someone has stood up to those forgetting the tradition of free speech at Berkeley.
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    Name: Adam Johnson on May 25, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: Boalt Hall, Class of '01
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    Name: Jenny Maybee on May 25, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: If we really want to develop our skills as attorneys and political actors, we need to have a rigorous environment full of a wide variety of viewpoints--especially those that challenge our own. Squelching speech that offends or makes one uncomfortable does nothing to deal with the underlying issues--real change will only occur when everything is out in the open.
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    Name: Matthew Holohan on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Masha Dabiza on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
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    Name: Jonathan Adams on May 26, 2004
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    Name: Michael Anderson on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I'm signing on to all but the first part of part 1) re the petition on Yoo. The petition was a response to Yoo's actions as Deputy Assistant Attorney General. He did not write that memo in the "laboratory of law school"; he wrote it in the real world with full knowledge that our government would rely on his advice. Yoo must have known that if his client relied on his legal advice, they would end up imprisoning, torturing or even killing innocent persons. Even if Yoo's legal conclusions re the inapplicability of the Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban combatants were correct (a highly debatable point), surely he realized that the military often makes mistakes, and was bound to detain innocent persons by accident -- or even on purpose. After all, many of us predicted exactly these sorts of outcomes when the U.S. first started Gitmo. If a moonlighting law professor takes on a mafia family as a client, and he provides legal advice that he knows will be used to cause great harm to innocent persons, is that protected by academic freedom Or are all lawyers just hired guns with no duty to consider the consequences of the legal counsel they provide
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    Name: Neal Katyal on May 26, 2004
    State: DC
    Country: US
    Comments: I teach constitutional and criminal law at Georgetown University, but am not an alum of Boalt Hall. I very much would like to sign this, or a similar, petition -- despite my disagreement with the substance of Prof. Yoo's position -- he most emphatically should not be called upon to resign for it.
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    Name: Jared Gross on May 26, 2004
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    Country: UK
    Comments: I am an American lawyer attending a British University. While I vehemently disagree with Prof. Yoo's conclusions, I am disgusted that so-called liberals want to quelch discussion of certain legal views. My comment to the students who oppose free speech: "Beat Yoo at his own art--Scholarly work--use scholarship to show how he is wrong!! NOT CENSORSHIP!!!!!!
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    Name: R. Santalesa on May 26, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: Stu Buchalter on May 26, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: Melanie Morris on May 26, 2004
    State: IN
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    Comments: This is another disturbing example of intellecual intolerance in academe. Surely people trained in the law should have a more heightened appreciation for the free speech this country's founding documents (and tradition) clearly embrace. Irrespective of the substance of his views, these are the very people who should mount his most zealous defese. For seeking to wield their legal training like weapons to silence their political opponents they should be denied admission to the bar.
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    Name: Mary Moss on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Sasha Albertini on May 26, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: In support of free academic discourse
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    Name: David King on May 26, 2004
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    Name: Michael Uhlmann on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
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    Name: Adriana Barillo on May 26, 2004
    State: OH
    Country: US
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    Name: Joseph Teltser on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Boalt '05
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    Name: Jamie Price on May 26, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: R K on May 26, 2004
    State: NJ
    Country: US
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    Name: David Morgan on May 26, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Cathleen Brown on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Totalitarian leftist scum, why should we send our children to be indoctrinated and perverted by your filth that you pretend is an education these days
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    Name: Riva Horwitz on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Galen Hancock on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Bret Banfield on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Adam Ellswroth on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Anonymous Alumni on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: (I'm writing this anonymously because I have no interest in being retaliated against, which seems to be the standard response to controversey or criticism at Boalt these days.)
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    Name: Jeff Bishop on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Alan Surchin on May 26, 2004
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    Name: Jason Torchinsky on May 26, 2004
    State: VA
    Country: US
    Comments: Keep Yoo. He's a great professor.
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    Name: John Moles on May 26, 2004
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    Name: Patrick Ross on May 26, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Class of '99
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    Name: Not Signing on May 26, 2004
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    Comments: There is a big difference between free speech, and having a large part in a government decision which deprives people of their rights, protections under the Geneva Convention, the ability to face one's accusers, and having a trial.
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    Name: Jeff Rowes on May 27, 2004
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: Well done.
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    Name: Joshua Martin on May 27, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: Class of '02.
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    Name: Calvin Massey on May 27, 2004
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    Comments: I am professor of law at the University of California, Hastings. I have taught a number of times at Boalt in the 1990s. Free speech is always in danger in any community of people who are certain that their preconceptions are correct.
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    Name: Mark Johnson on May 27, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Mike Giel on May 27, 2004
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    Name: Phillip Berry on May 27, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I am a Member of Boalt class of '63
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    Name: Steve Herman on May 28, 2004
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    Name: Sarah Masback on May 28, 2004
    State: IN
    Country: US
    Comments: I enjoyed John Yoo's recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
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    Name: Richard Ronald on May 29, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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