Signatures Academic Liberty & Free Speech at Boalt Hall Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	First Name	Last Name	State	Country	Comments
1	Nicholas	Ganjei	CA	US
2	William	Trachman
3	Therese	Lee	NY	US
4	john	kim			how awesome, i'm signing both petitions. the need for polemic at boalt has never been stronger.
5	Joseph	Morris	CA	US	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.
6	Kyle	Robertson	CA	US
7	Bartley	Brown	CA	US
8	Patricia	Svilik
9	Stephanie	Dykeman	IL	US	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.
10	Adam	Johnson	NY	US	Boalt Hall, Class of '01
11	Jenny	Maybee	CA	US	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.
12	Matthew	Holohan	CA	US
13	Masha	Dabiza	CA
14	Jonathan	Adams
15	Michael	Anderson	CA	US	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?
16	Neal	Katyal	DC	US	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.
17	Jared	Gross		UK	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!!!!!!
18	R.	Santalesa	NY	US
19	Stu	Buchalter	NY	US
20	Melanie	Morris	IN		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.
21	Mary	Moss	CA	US
22	Sasha	Albertini	TX	US	In support of free academic discourse
23	david	king
24	Michael	Uhlmann	CA
25	Adriana	Barillo	OH	US
26	Joseph	Teltser	CA	US	Boalt '05
27	Jamie	Price	NY	US
28	R	K	NJ	US
29	David	Morgan	TX	US
30	Cathleen	Brown	CA	US	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?
31	Riva	Horwitz	CA	US
32	Galen	Hancock	CA	US
33	Bret	Banfield	CA	US
34	Adam	Ellswroth	CA	US
35	Anonymous	Alumni	CA	US	(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.)
36	Jeff	Bishop	CA	US
37	Alan	Surchin
38	Jason	Torchinsky	VA	US	Keep Yoo. He's a great professor.
39	John	moles
40	Patrick	Ross	CA	US	Class of '99
41	Not	Signing			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.
42	Jeff	Rowes	FL	US	Well done.
43	Joshua	Martin	TX	US	Class of '02.
44	Calvin	Massey			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.
45	Mark	Johnson	CA	US
46	Mike	Giel
47	Phillip	Berry	CA	US	I am a Member of Boalt class of '63
48	Steve	Herman
49	Sarah	Masback	IN	US	I enjoyed John Yoo's recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
50	Richard	Ronald	CA	US