Kenji Yoshino

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Kenji Yoshino is a professor and dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, civil rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese Law and society. He is very active in several social and legal issues and is also an author.

Yoshino graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, obtaining a B.A. in 1991. He moved on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, attaining a M.Sc. in 1993. In 1996 he earned a J.D. from Yale, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He was soon published in multiple major law reviews. From 1996 to 1997 Yoshino served as a law clerk for federal appellate judge (and ex-Yale Law School Dean) 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 he was given a full professorship. In 2006 he was named the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law.

Yoshino is also a prolific author in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The Nation, The Advocate, and FindLaw. Additionally, he is active as a speaker at various conferences on an assortment of legal and social issues. His book Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights was published in 2006.

Major interests include social dynamics and assimilation as well as queer (LGBT) issues. He currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City.

He will be teaching constitutional law at NYU Law School in the fall semester of 2006.

[edit] Major works

(1996). "Suspect Symbols: The Literary Argument for Heightened Scrutiny for Gays" [1]. Columbia Law Review, 96 (1753).
(1997). "The Lawyer of Belmont" [2]. 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'" [3]. Yale Law Journal 108 (487).
(2000). "The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure" [4]. Stanford Law Review, 52 (2).
(2000). "The Eclectic Model of Censorship". California Law Review, 88 (5).
(2002). "Covering" [5]. Yale Law Journal, 111 (769).
(2006). Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. Random House. ISBN 0-375-50820-1.