Eugene Volokh
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Eugene Volokh is an American legal scholar, born in Kyiv in 1968; his family moved to the United States when he was seven.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 29 February 1968, Kyiv (opens wiqqi.app)
- Position: Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (from 2024); Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: BS in mathematics and computer science, UCLA, at 15; JD, UCLA (1992) (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Blog: Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy (opens reason.com)
“Fifth Circuit Will Decide En Banc Whether § 230 Preempts Texas Mandates on Social Media Platforms”
- Site: Eugene Volokh (UCLA) (opens www2.law.ucla.edu)
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Blog: Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy (opens reason.com)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness of a school policy that is a topic of national public debate. (opens korrents.com)
“If anything, there are weighty interests in full disclosure because knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness or unreasonableness of a school policy…”
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Carrying a gun into a no-guns zone to stop an apparent in-progress school shooting makes for an extraordinarily clear case for the choice-of-evils defense. (opens korrents.com)
“And while in some situations the balancing test in the necessity defense can be vaguer than the somewhat more precise terms of the self-defense defense, carrying a gun into a no-guns zone in order to stop an apparent…”
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The choice-of-evils defense is not foolish to apply to carrying a gun onto school property when necessary to stop an in-progress school shooting, even if the general law is considered foolish. (opens korrents.com)
“But even if you think the Oregon law (coupled with Bend's policy) is foolish in generally criminalizing gun licensees' carrying a gun onto school property, it's not so foolish as to criminalizing their carrying a gun…”
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Knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness of a school policy that is a topic of national public debate. (opens korrents.com)