Editing Eugene Volokh (section)

==Early life and education==
Volokh was born in the [[Soviet Union]] to a Jewish family residing in [[Kyiv|Kyiv, Ukraine]].<ref name="Yeah, I'm Jewish too">{{cite news|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/posts/2005/03/09/yeah_im_jewish_too|newspaper=Foreign Policy|last=Drezner|first=Daniel W.|date=March 9, 2005|title=Yeah, I'm Jewish too|access-date=September 21, 2014|archive-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312005409/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2005/03/09/yeah_im_jewish_too|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Interview with Eugene Volokh, Un-American Legal Conspirator">{{cite web|url=http://www.bitterlawyer.com/eugene-volokh-un-american-legal-conspirator|title=Interview with Eugene Volokh, Un-American Legal Conspirator|date=January 11, 2010|website=Bitter Lawyer|access-date=September 21, 2014|archive-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312012140/http://www.bitterlawyer.com/eugene-volokh-un-american-legal-conspirator/|url-status=live}}</ref> He emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of seven.<ref name=uclatoday19980518>{{cite web |author=UCLA Today |url=http://www.newmediawire.com/news/law-prof-outpaces-rest-of-the-world-3063345 |title=Law Prof Outpaces Rest Of The World |publisher= [[NewMediaWire]] |date=18 May 1998 |accessdate=2021-06-03 |archive-date=2020-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027024025/https://www.newmediawire.com/news/law-prof-outpaces-rest-of-the-world-3063345 |url-status=live }}</ref> Volokh exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age. At the age of 9, he was attending university-level mathematics and calculus courses after he was found studying [[differential equations]] on his own.<ref name=lat19861018>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-18-me-6057-story.html Nancy Graham, "Professor's Gift Is Nurturing Gifted, Steering Them to UCLA"], ''Los Angeles Times'', October 18, 1986.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-03-we-1203-story.html| title=Baby Einsteins : Education: An informal UCLA program accepts greatly gifted freshmen, some as young as 12| website=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=3 November 1991| access-date=2019-11-05| archive-date=2019-11-05| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105195558/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-03-we-1203-story.html| url-status=live}}</ref> When only 10 years 1 month old, he earned a 780 out of a possible 800 on the math portion of what is now called the [[SAT-I]].<ref name=StanleyBenbow1983>[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002246698301700104 Julian C. Stanley and Camilla P. Benbow, "Smpy's First Decade: Ten Years of Posing Problems and Solving Them"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805225209/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002246698301700104 |date=2020-08-05 }}, The Journal of Special Education, Vol 17 Iss 1 1983. (Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY))</ref> 

At the age of 12, he began working as a [[Computer programming|computer programmer]] and was enrolled as a [[sophomore]] at [[UCLA]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-02-ga-15365-story.html|title = Professor Gets the Best and the Brightest off to an Early Start|website = [[Los Angeles Times]]|date = 2 November 1986|access-date = 2020-01-16|archive-date = 2020-07-31|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200731032051/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-02-ga-15365-story.html|url-status = live}}</ref> He attended the [[Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hcssim.org/about-our-alumni/|title=About our Alumni|work=hcssim.org|access-date=2017-02-13|archive-date=2017-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419090641/http://hcssim.org/about-our-alumni/|url-status=live}}</ref>  As a junior at UCLA, he earned $480 a week as a programmer for [[20th Century Fox]].<ref name="time19820503">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,953474,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205074045/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,953474,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2013|title=Here Come the Microkids|access-date=February 23, 2011|author1=Nash, J. Madeleine|author2=Frederic Golden|author3=Philip Faflick|date=May 3, 1982|publisher=Time}}</ref> During this period, Volokh's achievements were featured in an episode of ''OMNI: The New Frontier'', a television series hosted by [[Peter Ustinov]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.videodetective.com/movie_trailer/OMNI-_THE_NEW_FRONTIER/trailer/P00528576.htm|title=Omni: The New Frontier (1989) trailer|work=Video Detective|access-date=January 23, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He graduated from UCLA at age 15 with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in mathematics and [[computer science]].<ref name="bruin">{{cite news|last1=Kirby|first1=Fiona|title=UCLA alum goes from programmer to law professor|url=http://dailybruin.com/2014/01/28/ucla-alum-goes-from-programmer-to-law-professor/|access-date=September 18, 2017|work=Daily Bruin|date=January 28, 2014|archive-date=September 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920044303/http://dailybruin.com/2014/01/28/ucla-alum-goes-from-programmer-to-law-professor/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Volokh later attended the [[UCLA Law School]], where he was a managing editor of the ''[[UCLA Law Review]]''. He graduated in 1992 with a [[Juris Doctor]].<ref name="bruin"/>