Eugene Volokh (born February 29, 1968) is a American legal commentator and law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He publishes the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is commonly cited in the American media.
Volokh was born in the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. He emigrated with his family to the United States at age seven. At age 12, he began working as a computer programmer; three years later, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Computer Science from UCLA. In 1992, Volokh received a law degree from UCLA. He was a law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and later for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Volokh holds a rightist-libertarian political ideology. He is a well-recognized expert on First Amendment law, as well as copyright law. He also advocates a broad reading of the Second Amendment rights. He advocates campus speech rights, religious freedom, and opposes affirmative action, having worked as a legal advisor to California's Proposition 209 campaign. His most prominent writings include last year's "Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope," published in the Harvard Law Review, as well as a textbook on First Amendment law.
On his weblog, he addresses a wide variety of issues, with a focus on politics and law. He has criticized judicial citations of Wikipedia, arguing that information found on Wikipedia may be unreliable.
Volokh's works have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Slate, and other publications. His mother, Anne Volokh, is the founder of Movieline magazine.
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