Editing Eugene Volokh (section)

{{Short description|Ukrainian–American legal scholar (born 1968)}}
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| name               = Eugene Volokh
| image              = Eugene Volokh.jpg
| caption            = Volokh in 2004
| native_name        = Євге́н Володимирович Волох
| image_upright      = .75
| birthname          = Yevhen Volodymyrovych Volokh
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1968|2|29}}
| birth_place        = [[Kyiv]], [[Soviet Union]] (now [[Ukraine]])
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| education          = [[University of California, Los Angeles]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])
| known_for          = ''[[The Volokh Conspiracy]]''
| spouse             = Leslie Pereira<ref>{{cite web |last=Logan |first=Christina |title=First-Ever 'Pali Bee' Takes the Stage |url=https://pacificpalisades.patch.com/groups/schools/p/first-ever-pali-bee-takes-the-stage |accessdate=September 20, 2017 |work=Pacific Palisades Patch |date=January 24, 2012 |archive-date=January 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116110546/https://patch.com/california/pacificpalisades/first-ever-pali-bee-takes-the-stage |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

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'''Eugene Volokh''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|ɒ|l|ə|k}};<ref>{{cite web|url=http://volokh.com/posts/1243463422.shtml|title=Pronouncing 'Volokh'|website=[[The Volokh Conspiracy]]|date=May 27, 2009|access-date=July 20, 2016|archive-date=August 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815032321/http://volokh.com/posts/1243463422.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/20/im-finally-attacked-by-name-on-the-floor-of-the-senate|title=I'm finally attacked by name on the floor of the Senate|website=The Volokh Conspiracy|publisher=The Washington Post|author=Sasha Volokh|date=July 20, 2016|access-date=July 20, 2016|quote=[S]he pauses for a second or two in her notes, carefully considering how to pronounce my last name before settling on [ˈvoʊlɒk] (rhymes with 'bow lock') – I don't object to that pronunciation, even though we use [ˈvɑːlək] (rhymes with 'frolic') and the Russian pronunciation is [ˈvoləx]|archive-date=July 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721111248/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/20/im-finally-attacked-by-name-on-the-floor-of-the-senate/|url-status=live}}</ref> born '''Yevhen Volodymyrovych Volokh''' ({{langx|uk|Євге́н Володимирович Волох}}); February 29, 1968)<ref name="uclamag">{{cite web|title=UCLA Magazine|work=The Contrarian|url=http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/year2002/summer02_05.html|access-date=November 11, 2006|archive-date=September 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919090614/http://magazine.ucla.edu/year2002/summer02_05.html|url-status=live}}</ref> is an American [[legal scholar]] known for his scholarship in [[American constitutional law]] and [[Libertarianism in the United States|libertarianism]] as well as his prominent legal blog, ''[[The Volokh Conspiracy]]''. Volokh is regarded as an expert on the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]], and the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prominent Legal Scholar Eugene Volokh Joins The Hoover Institution |url=https://www.hoover.org/press/prominent-legal-scholar-eugene-volokh-joins-hoover-institution |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tsesis |first=Alexander |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-74DwAAQBAJ |title=Free Speech in the Balance |date=2020-11-12 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-108-42400-4 |page=93 |language=en |author-link=Alexander Tsesis |access-date=2022-10-26 |archive-date=2023-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116110616/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-74DwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

He is currently the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]] at [[Stanford University]], the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law Emeritus at the [[UCLA School of Law|University of California, Los Angeles]], and an<!-- academic --> affiliate at the law firm [[Schaerr Jaffe]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Volokh |first=Eugene |date=2023-09-19 |title=My Move to the Hoover Institution |url=https://reason.com/volokh/2023/09/19/my-move-to-the-hoover-institution/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=[[The Volokh Conspiracy]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="schaerrjaffe20230215" />