John Yoo rejects the
widely-accepted framework built on the U.N. Charter and replaces it with a new
system consisting of defensive, pre-emptive, or preventive measures to
encourage wars that advance global welfare...
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/il_faculty_publications_0314.pdf
A university that
allows a war criminal to teach constitutional and international law courses to
the next generation of lawyers and judges under prejudice of 'academic freedom'
is protecting war crimes. The legal profession now produces an ideology that includes
justification of crimes of arbitrary detention, torture, and trials before military
commissions bereft of civil due process. Faced with the challenge of moral
relativism popularized in today's schools, will students find the courage to speak
out against the crimes of their government?
We demand application of ethical standards administrators choose to ignore. Professor Sujit Choudhry could use his new position as Berkeley Law Dean to teach the practice of law to protect peoples' rights. Will he?
