Kenji Yoshino
Kenji Yoshino (born May 1, 1969) is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law.[1] Formerly, he was the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work involves constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and society.
Kenji Yoshino | |
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| Born | May 1, 1969 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Magdalen College, Oxford (MSc) Yale University (JD) |
| Occupation | Law professor |
Education
Yoshino graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy (1987) as valedictorian and Harvard College, obtaining a B.A. in English literature summa cum laude in 1991.[2] Between undergraduate years, Yoshino worked as an aide for various members of the Japanese Parliament. He moved on to Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a M.Sc. in management studies (industrial relations) in 1993. In 1996, he earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Career
From 1996 to 1997, Yoshino served as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1998, he received a tenure-track position at Yale Law School as an associate professor, and in 2003 the school bestowed a full professorship. In 2006, he was named the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law.[3] Courts throughout the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court,[4] have referenced Yoshino's work.
His first book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights was published in 2006. It is a mix of argument intertwined with pertinent biographical narratives.[5] His second book, A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice was published in 2011. In 2016, his book Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial was published and received the Stonewall Book Award's Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.[6]
Covering won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-Fiction from Publishing Triangle in 2007. His major areas of interest include social dynamics, conformity and assimilation, as well as queer (LGBT) and personal liberty issues. He has been a co-plaintiff in cases related to his specialties.
During the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school years, he served as a visiting professor at New York University School of Law, and in February 2008 he accepted a full-time tenured position as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law.[1]
In May 2011, Yoshino was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers, where he served a six-year term.[7] In 2023, Kenji Yoshino joined the Facebook Oversight Board.[8]
Personal life
A Japanese American, and openly gay man, Yoshino writes poetry for personal enjoyment.[9]
Major works
- (1996). "Suspect Symbols: The Literary Argument for Heightened Scrutiny for Gays". Columbia Law Review, 96 (1753).
- (1997). "The Lawyer of Belmont". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 9 (183).
- (1998). "Assimilationist Bias in Equal Protection: The Visibility Presumption and the Case of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'". Yale Law Journal 108 (487).
- (2000). "The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure". Stanford Law Review, 52 (2).
- (2000). "The Eclectic Model of Censorship". California Law Review, 88 (5).
- (2002). "Covering". Yale Law Journal, 111 (769).
- (2005). "The City and the Poet" Yale Law Journal, 114 (1835).
- (2006). Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. Random House. ISBN 0-375-50820-1.
- (2011). "The New Equal Protection" Harvard Law Review, 124 (747).
- (2011). A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-176910-8.
- (2016). Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0385348829.
- (2023). Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Diversity, Identity, and Justice. (with David Glasgow). Atria Books. ISBN 978-1982181383.
See also
References
- NYU Hires Kenji Yoshino as Permanent Faculty Member
- "Kenji Yoshino - Overview | NYU School of Law". its.law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- "Announcement of Professor Kenji Yoshino as Inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law" (PDF) (Press release). Yale Law School. 2006-10-14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-12.
- Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 640 (U.S. 2000).
- Yoshino, Kenji (2006-01-15). "The Pressure to Cover". The New York Times Magazine.
- "Stonewall Book Awards List". American Library Association. 9 September 2009. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- "Overseers 2011 election results". Harvard Gazette. 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
- Holt, Kris (February 14, 2023). "Meta's Oversight Board will take on more cases and make decisions faster". Engadget. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- Yoshino, Kenji.A Conversation with Yale Law Professor Kenji Yoshino, Author of 'Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights' Archived 2007-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, transcript of Court TV program (February 17, 2005). Retrieved on May 17, 2007.