Eugene Volokh

{{Short description|Ukrainian–American legal scholar (born 1968)}}

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| name = Eugene Volokh

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| caption = Volokh in 2004

| native_name = Євге́н Володимирович Волох

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| birthname = Yevhen Volodymyrovych Volokh

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|2|29}}

| birth_place = Kyiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)

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| education = University of California, Los Angeles (BS, JD)

| known_for = The Volokh Conspiracy

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Eugene Volokh ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|ɒ|l|ə|k}};{{cite web|url=http://volokh.com/posts/1243463422.shtml|title=Pronouncing 'Volokh'|website=The Volokh Conspiracy|date=May 27, 2009|access-date=July 20, 2016|archive-date=August 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815032321/http://volokh.com/posts/1243463422.shtml|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/20/im-finally-attacked-by-name-on-the-floor-of-the-senate|title=I'm finally attacked by name on the floor of the Senate|website=The Volokh Conspiracy|publisher=The Washington Post|author=Sasha Volokh|date=July 20, 2016|access-date=July 20, 2016|quote=[S]he pauses for a second or two in her notes, carefully considering how to pronounce my last name before settling on [ˈvoʊlɒk] (rhymes with 'bow lock') – I don't object to that pronunciation, even though we use [ˈvɑːlək] (rhymes with 'frolic') and the Russian pronunciation is [ˈvoləx]|archive-date=July 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721111248/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/20/im-finally-attacked-by-name-on-the-floor-of-the-senate/|url-status=live}} born Yevhen Volodymyrovych Volokh ({{langx|uk|Євге́н Володимирович Волох}}); February 29, 1968){{cite web|title=UCLA Magazine|work=The Contrarian|url=http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/year2002/summer02_05.html|access-date=November 11, 2006|archive-date=September 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919090614/http://magazine.ucla.edu/year2002/summer02_05.html|url-status=live}} is an American legal scholar known for his scholarship in American constitutional law and libertarianism as well as his prominent legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. Volokh is regarded as an expert on the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment.{{Cite web |title=Prominent Legal Scholar Eugene Volokh Joins The Hoover Institution |url=https://www.hoover.org/press/prominent-legal-scholar-eugene-volokh-joins-hoover-institution |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Tsesis |first=Alexander |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-74DwAAQBAJ |title=Free Speech in the Balance |date=2020-11-12 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-42400-4 |page=93 |language=en |author-link=Alexander Tsesis |access-date=2022-10-26 |archive-date=2023-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116110616/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-74DwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}

He is currently the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an affiliate at the law firm Schaerr Jaffe.{{Cite web |last=Volokh |first=Eugene |date=2023-09-19 |title=My Move to the Hoover Institution |url=https://reason.com/volokh/2023/09/19/my-move-to-the-hoover-institution/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=The Volokh Conspiracy |language=en-US}}

Early life and education

Volokh was born in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family residing in Kyiv, Ukraine.{{cite news|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/posts/2005/03/09/yeah_im_jewish_too|newspaper=Foreign Policy|last=Drezner|first=Daniel W.|date=March 9, 2005|title=Yeah, I'm Jewish too|access-date=September 21, 2014|archive-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312005409/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2005/03/09/yeah_im_jewish_too|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bitterlawyer.com/eugene-volokh-un-american-legal-conspirator|title=Interview with Eugene Volokh, Un-American Legal Conspirator|date=January 11, 2010|website=Bitter Lawyer|access-date=September 21, 2014|archive-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312012140/http://www.bitterlawyer.com/eugene-volokh-un-american-legal-conspirator/|url-status=live}} He emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of seven.{{cite web |author=UCLA Today |url=http://www.newmediawire.com/news/law-prof-outpaces-rest-of-the-world-3063345 |title=Law Prof Outpaces Rest Of The World |publisher= NewMediaWire |date=18 May 1998 |accessdate=2021-06-03 |archive-date=2020-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027024025/https://www.newmediawire.com/news/law-prof-outpaces-rest-of-the-world-3063345 |url-status=live }} Volokh exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age. At the age of 9, he was attending university-level mathematics and calculus courses after he was found studying differential equations on his own.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-18-me-6057-story.html Nancy Graham, "Professor's Gift Is Nurturing Gifted, Steering Them to UCLA"], Los Angeles Times, October 18, 1986.{{cite web| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-03-we-1203-story.html| title=Baby Einsteins : Education: An informal UCLA program accepts greatly gifted freshmen, some as young as 12| website=Los Angeles Times| date=3 November 1991| access-date=2019-11-05| archive-date=2019-11-05| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105195558/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-03-we-1203-story.html| url-status=live}} When only 10 years 1 month old, he earned a 780 out of a possible 800 on the math portion of what is now called the SAT-I.[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002246698301700104 Julian C. Stanley and Camilla P. Benbow, "Smpy's First Decade: Ten Years of Posing Problems and Solving Them"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805225209/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002246698301700104 |date=2020-08-05 }}, The Journal of Special Education, Vol 17 Iss 1 1983. (Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY))

At the age of 12, he began working as a computer programmer and was enrolled as a sophomore at UCLA.{{cite web|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-02-ga-15365-story.html|title = Professor Gets the Best and the Brightest off to an Early Start|website = Los Angeles Times|date = 2 November 1986|access-date = 2020-01-16|archive-date = 2020-07-31|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200731032051/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-02-ga-15365-story.html|url-status = live}} He attended the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics.{{cite web|url=http://hcssim.org/about-our-alumni/|title=About our Alumni|work=hcssim.org|access-date=2017-02-13|archive-date=2017-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419090641/http://hcssim.org/about-our-alumni/|url-status=live}} As a junior at UCLA, he earned $480 a week as a programmer for 20th Century Fox.{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,953474,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205074045/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,953474,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2013|title=Here Come the Microkids|access-date=February 23, 2011|author1=Nash, J. Madeleine|author2=Frederic Golden|author3=Philip Faflick|date=May 3, 1982|publisher=Time}} During this period, Volokh's achievements were featured in an episode of OMNI: The New Frontier, a television series hosted by Peter Ustinov.{{cite web|url=http://www.videodetective.com/movie_trailer/OMNI-_THE_NEW_FRONTIER/trailer/P00528576.htm|title=Omni: The New Frontier (1989) trailer|work=Video Detective|access-date=January 23, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He graduated from UCLA at age 15 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science.{{cite news|last1=Kirby|first1=Fiona|title=UCLA alum goes from programmer to law professor|url=http://dailybruin.com/2014/01/28/ucla-alum-goes-from-programmer-to-law-professor/|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=Daily Bruin|date=January 28, 2014|archive-date=September 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920044303/http://dailybruin.com/2014/01/28/ucla-alum-goes-from-programmer-to-law-professor/|url-status=live}}

Volokh later attended the UCLA Law School, where he was a managing editor of the UCLA Law Review. He graduated in 1992 with a Juris Doctor.

Career

After law school, Volokh clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, then for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.{{cite web|title=Threats to the First Amendment – Hon. Alex Kozinski and Prof. Eugene Volokh|url=https://cjhsla.org/2012/11/11/threats-to-the-first-amendment-hon-alex-kozinski-and-prof-eugene-volokh|publisher=Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors|access-date=September 18, 2017|date=November 11, 2012|archive-date=September 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919234432/https://cjhsla.org/2012/11/11/threats-to-the-first-amendment-hon-alex-kozinski-and-prof-eugene-volokh/|url-status=dead}} Upon completing his Supreme Court clerkship in 1994, UCLA hired Volokh as a professor of law. As of 2018, he also held the position of Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law,{{cite web|url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/eugene-volokh/|title=Biography Page|website=law.ucla.edu|access-date=2018-03-23|archive-date=2015-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101213814/http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/eugene-volokh|url-status=dead}} and was an academic affiliate at the law firm Mayer Brown.{{cite web|url=http://www.mayerbrown.com/people/eugene-volokh|title=Volokh profile|work=mayerbrown.com|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612232922/https://www.mayerbrown.com/people/eugene-volokh/|url-status=dead}} As of 2023, he was an affiliate of trial and appellate law firm Schaerr Jaffe.{{cite web |title=Our Firm : Eugene Volokh |url=https://www.schaerr-jaffe.com/eugene-volokh |website=schaerr-jaffe.com/ |date=15 February 2023 |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=24 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124175549/https://www.schaerr-jaffe.com/eugene-volokh |url-status=live }}

In 2024, Volokh retired from UCLA, becoming a Professor of Law Emeritus, and moved to the Hoover Institution at Stanford, where he is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow.

Politics

Volokh is commonly described as politically conservative or libertarian.{{cite news|last1=Beckett|first1=Lois|title=Milwaukee sheriff says it's 'pitchforks and torches time' and stands by Trump|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/15/milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-pitchforks-torches-time-twitter|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=The Guardian|date=October 15, 2016|quote=Eugene Volokh, a Libertarian second amendment scholar|archive-date=September 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901192742/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/15/milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-pitchforks-torches-time-twitter|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Berrier|first1=Justin|title=The Volokh Conspiracy And Washington Post's Move To The Right|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/22/the-volokh-conspiracy-and-washington-posts-move/197694|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=Media Matters for America blog|date=January 22, 2014|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011214504/https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/22/the-volokh-conspiracy-and-washington-posts-move/197694|url-status=live}} In 2012, one commentator described Volokh's politics as "soft libertarian", and Volokh as an "unpredictable libertarian-leaning" writer.{{cite news|last1=Brooks|first1=David|title=Election loss focuses attention on new conservative views|url=https://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Brooks-Election-loss-focuses-attention-on-new-4054781.php|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=Houston Chronicle|date=November 20, 2012|archive-date=March 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301044346/https://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Brooks-Election-loss-focuses-attention-on-new-4054781.php|url-status=live}} He has been a longtime member of the Federalist Society since he first joined in the 1980s.{{cite news|date=April 25, 2014|last=Volokh|first=Eugene|title= Federalist Society's second annual Executive Branch Review Conference|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/04/25/federalist-societys-second-annual-executive-branch-review-conference/|newspaper=The Washington Post|quote=I’ve been a member of the Federalist Society for over 25 years (since before I even went to law school), I’m involved with the Federalist Society’s Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group, and I often give talks (which generally come with honoraria) at Federalist Society local chapters.}}

In the 2008 presidential election, Volokh supported former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, saying Thompson had good instincts on legal issues and that he preferred Thompson's positions on the First Amendment and political speech to John McCain's sponsorship of campaign finance reform. Volokh also liked Thompson's position in favor of individual gun ownership.Bazelon, Emily (November 26, 2007) [http://www.slate.com/id/2177688/ On the advice of counsel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819072132/http://www.slate.com/id/2177688/ |date=2011-08-19 }}, Slate.com; accessed February 27, 2018. He noted that Thompson "takes federalism seriously, and he seems to have a fairly deep-seated sense that there is a real difference between state and federal power."

Volokh is a supporter of same-sex marriage.{{cite web|title=Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html|date=April 22, 2014|access-date=February 27, 2018|archive-date=April 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427095130/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html|url-status=live}}

Writing

Volokh's article about "The Commonplace Second Amendment" (1998),{{cite web |url=http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/common.htm |title=The Commonplace Second Amendment |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802054528/https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/common.htm |archive-date=2020-08-02 |url-status=dead}} was cited by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion in the landmark Second Amendment case of District of Columbia v. Heller,128 S. Ct. 2783, 2789. and he has been quoted in the media on gun laws.{{cite news|title=NRA Leader Pledges 'To Go On Offense' During Trump Years|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/NRA-leader-pledges-to-go-on-offense-in-10690963.php|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|agency=Associated Press|date=December 4, 2016|archive-date=September 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919234802/http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/NRA-leader-pledges-to-go-on-offense-in-10690963.php|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Ha|first1=Tu Thanh|title=Legal hurdles get in the way of U.S. gun-control advocates|url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/legal-hurdles-get-in-the-way-of-us-gun-control-advocates/article6503516/|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=Toronto Globe and Mail|date=December 17, 2012|archive-date=January 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116110547/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/legal-hurdles-get-in-the-way-of-us-gun-control-advocates/article6503516/|url-status=live}} His article, "Might Federal Preemption of Speech-Protective State Laws Violate the First Amendment?" (2021) was cited by Justice Clarence Thomas in a concurring opinion for Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump (2021), with Thomas arguing that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act might be unconstitutional and that Twitter should be regulated as a common carrier.Hasen, Richard L. (2022). Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons our Politics-And How to Cure It. Yale University Press. pp. 122-125. {{ISBN|9780300259377}}.{{OCLC|1262192857}}.

Volokh advocates free speech on campus, religious freedom, and other First Amendment issues, and has been widely quoted as an expert.{{cite news|last1=Egelko|first1=Bob|title=Milo Yiannopoulos' speech unwelcome in Berkeley, but protected by Constitution|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/It-many-be-hate-speech-to-most-but-it-s-still-10904599.php|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=February 2, 2017|archive-date=September 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918035807/http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/It-many-be-hate-speech-to-most-but-it-s-still-10904599.php|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last1=Saunders|first1=Debra J.|title=I Pledge Allegiance to the First Amendment|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/saunders/article/I-pledge-allegiance-to-the-First-Amendment-6132630.php|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=March 13, 2015|access-date=September 18, 2017|archive-date=September 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919234821/http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/saunders/article/I-pledge-allegiance-to-the-First-Amendment-6132630.php|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Thanawala|first1=Sudhin|title=California students suspended for 'liking' racist posts launch lawsuit|url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/california-students-suspended-for-liking-racist-posts-sue/article34905362/|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=Toronto Globe and Mail|agency=Associated Press|date=May 5, 2017|archive-date=January 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124002243/https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/california-students-suspended-for-liking-racist-posts-sue/article34905362/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Schoenberg|first=Tom|title=Facebook 'Like' of Campaign Page Ruled Free Speech|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Facebook-Like-of-campaign-page-ruled-free-speech-4825688.php|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=September 18, 2013|archive-date=September 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919234639/http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Facebook-Like-of-campaign-page-ruled-free-speech-4825688.php|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Rosenhall|first=Laurel|title=Legislature Runs Afoul of First Amendment Advocates|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Legislature-runs-afoul-of-First-Amendment-10875565.php|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=January 22, 2017|archive-date=September 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919234814/http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Legislature-runs-afoul-of-First-Amendment-10875565.php|url-status=live}} He opposes affirmative action, having worked as a legal advisor to California's Proposition 209 campaign. Volokh is a critic of what he sees as the overly broad operation of American workplace harassment laws, including those relating to sexual harassment.{{cite news|last1=Schabner|first1=Dean|title=Was Racial Slur Anger or Hate Crime?|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92644|access-date=September 21, 2017|work=ABC News|publisher=Go.com|date=August 15, 2017|quote=Eugene Volokh, a specialist in the First Amendment who was one of the legal advisors on California's Proposition 209 anti-race-preference ballot measure|archive-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921193439/http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92644|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|last1=Volokh|first1=Eugene|title=Freedom of Speech and Workplace Harassment|journal=UCLA L. Rev.|date=1992|volume=39|page=1791|url=https://fileleaks.com/file/9d4e1574e83024cb56e80d0a61ed51afe256f747/volokh1992freedomOfSpeechworkplaceHarassment.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311051429/https://fileleaks.com/file/9d4e1574e83024cb56e80d0a61ed51afe256f747/volokh1992freedomOfSpeechworkplaceHarassment.pdf|access-date=March 11, 2021|archive-date=2021-03-11}}{{cite web|url=https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/harass/substanc.htm|title="Harassment Law and Free Speech Doctrine"|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118142418/http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/harass/substanc.htm|archive-date=2015-01-18}}{{cite journal|last1=Volokh|first1=Eugene|title=What Speech Does 'Hostile Work Environment' Harassment Law Restrict?|journal=Geo. L.J.|date=1997|volume=85|page=627|url=http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/harass/breadth.htm|access-date=September 21, 2017|archive-date=October 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012062125/http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/harass/breadth.htm|url-status=live}}

On his weblog, Volokh addresses a wide variety of issues, with a focus on politics and law.{{cite news|last=Egelko|first=Bob|title=Court Ruling Helps Bloggers in Libel Cases|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Court-ruling-helps-bloggers-in-libel-cases-5153915.php|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=January 17, 2014|quote=Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who is also a prolific blogger|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007121543/http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Court-ruling-helps-bloggers-in-libel-cases-5153915.php|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Saunders|first1=Debra J.|title=Heckler's veto is not cultural appreciation|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/saunders/article/Heckler-s-veto-is-not-cultural-appreciation-5285756.php|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=March 3, 2014|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007121715/http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/saunders/article/Heckler-s-veto-is-not-cultural-appreciation-5285756.php|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Volokh|first1=Eugene|title=Opinion: The Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/09/18/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-73/|access-date=September 18, 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|date=September 18, 2017|archive-date=September 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918232615/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/09/18/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-73/|url-status=live}}

Volokh's non-academic work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Slate, and other publications. He was a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post from 2005-2012.{{cite web|title=Eugene Volokh {{!}} HuffPost|url=https://www.huffpost.com/author/eugene-volokh|access-date=2020-12-14|website=www.huffpost.com|language=en|archive-date=2020-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113034514/https://www.huffpost.com/author/eugene-volokh|url-status=live}}

Family

Volokh's brother, Alexander "Sasha" Volokh, is a law professor at Emory University.cite web|title=The Man Behind the ‘Conspiracy’: Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law Professor|url=https://www.thefire.org/news/man-behind-conspiracy-eugene-volokh-ucla-law-professor-videocite web|url=https://law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/volokh-profile.html Like Eugene, Alexander also clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court, although Alexander clerked for Justice Alito as well.{{cite web | url=https://law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/volokh-profile.html | title=Alexander Volokh | Emory University School of Law | Atlanta, GA }}

Selected works

=Books=

{{Cite book |title=Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, and Seminar Papers |year=2003 |publisher=Foundation Press |location=New York |isbn=978-1-58778-477-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/academiclegalwri00volo_0 }}
{{Cite book|title=The First Amendment: Problems, Cases and Policy Arguments |year=2001 |publisher=Foundation Press |location=New York |isbn=978-1-58778-144-5 }}

=Articles=

{{Cite journal |year=2009 |title=Symbolic Expression and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment |journal=Georgetown Law Journal |volume=97 |issue=4 |pages=1057–84 |url=http://www.georgetownlawjournal.com/issues/pdf/97-4/Volokh.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308215929/http://www.georgetownlawjournal.com/issues/pdf/97-4/Volokh.PDF |archive-date=2011-03-08 }}
{{cite journal|title=Medical Self-Defense, Prohibited Experimental Therapies, and Payment for Organs|journal=Harvard Law Review|date=2007|volume=120|pmid=17546805|url=https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/volokh.pdf|last1=Volokh|first1=E.|issue=7|pages=1813–46}}
{{Cite journal |year=2006 |title=Freedom of Expressive Association and Government Subsidies |journal=Stanford Law Review |volume=58 |issue=6 |pages=1919–68 |url=http://lawreview.stanford.edu/content/vol58/issue6/volokh.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705100708/http://lawreview.stanford.edu/content/vol58/issue6/volokh.pdf |archive-date=2008-07-05 |url-status=dead }}
{{Cite journal |year=2006 |title=Parent-Child Speech and Child Custody Speech Restrictions |journal=NYU Law Review |volume=81 |issue=2 |page=631 |url=http://www.law.nyu.edu/JOURNALS/LAWREVIEW/ISSUES/vol81/no2/NYU203.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703181829/http://www.law.nyu.edu/journals/lawreview/issues/vol81/no2/NYU203.pdf |archive-date=2008-07-03 }}
{{Cite journal |year=2005 |title=Crime-Facilitating Speech |journal=Stanford Law Review |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=1095–222 |url=http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/facilitating.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20081031082007/http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/facilitating.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 31, 2008 }}
{{Cite journal |year=2003 |title=The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=116 |issue=4 |pages=1026–137 |doi=10.2307/1342743 |url=https://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/slippery.pdf |jstor=1342743 |last1=Volokh |first1=Eugene }}
{{Cite journal |year=2002 |title=Test Suites: A Tool for Improving Student Articles |journal=Journal of Legal Education |volume=52 |page=440 |url=http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/testsuites.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20081031082006/http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/testsuites.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 31, 2008 }}
{{Cite journal |year=2000 |title=Freedom of Speech and Information Privacy: The Troubling Implications of a Right to Stop Others from Speaking About You |journal=Stanford Law Review |volume=52 |issue=5 |pages=1049–124 |doi=10.2307/1229510 |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/telecom/volokhfreedomofspeechandinformationprivacy.pdf |jstor=1229510 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709062753/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/telecom/volokhfreedomofspeechandinformationprivacy.pdf |archive-date=2008-07-09 |last1=Volokh |first1=Eugene }}
{{Cite journal|year=1998 |title=The Commonplace Second Amendment |journal=NYU Law Review |volume=73 |page=793 |url=https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/common.htm}}
{{Cite journal |year=1995 |title=Cheap Speech and What It Will Do |journal=Yale Law Journal |volume=104 |issue=7 |pages=1805–50 |doi=10.2307/797032 |jstor= 797032 |last1=Volokh |first1=Eugene |url=https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylj/vol104/iss7/10 }}
{{Cite journal|year=1992|title=Freedom of Speech and Workplace Harassment|journal=UCLA Law Review|volume=39|issue=6|pages=1791–1872|url=https://fileleaks.com/file/9d4e1574e83024cb56e80d0a61ed51afe256f747/volokh1992freedomOfSpeechworkplaceHarassment.pdf|last1=Volokh|first1=Eugene|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311051429/https://fileleaks.com/file/9d4e1574e83024cb56e80d0a61ed51afe256f747/volokh1992freedomOfSpeechworkplaceHarassment.pdf|archive-date=2021-03-11}}