Don't Honor Torture

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National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Chapter Launches Petition Against Honoring John Yoo

We feel that the UC Berkeley School of Law, as one of the leading law schools in the country, has an obligation to uphold ethical legal standards. Yet by maintaining and honoring John Yoo, the law school is undermining its own ethical, political, and legal reputation. Bestowing this honor sends the message that the UC Berkeley School of Law is condoning and promoting policies violating the most fundamental constitutional and human rights. That, in itself, broadens the negative effect Yoo’s jurisprudence has had in the legal and political world. But it also furthers the hostile and unsafe environment on campus for students identifying themselves as political dissidents and/or religious and cultural minorities disproportionately and unfairly targeted in the “War on Terror.”

https://www.change.org/petitions/dean-sujit-choudhry-don-t-honor-torture

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1. It's a Cal-Stanford thing, I think

Stanford has a war criminal on its faculty, and Berkeley can't stand the thought of being one-upped by the Farm. So Rice and Yoo have jobs for life, when they should by rights be serving life.