Kenji Yoshino

Kenji Yoshino
Residence	United States
Fields	Law
Institutions	New York University School of Law Yale Law School
Alma mater	Harvard University Magdalen College, Oxford Yale University

Kenji Yoshino (born c. 1969) is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. 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. He is actively involved with several social and legal issues and is also an author.

Yoshino graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy (1987) as valedictorian and Harvard, obtaining a B.A. in English literature summa cum laude in 1991. Between undergraduate years Yoshino worked as an aide for various members of the Japanese Parliament. He moved on to Magdalen College at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, attaining a M.Sc. in management studies (industrial relations) 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 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. Courts throughout the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have referenced Yoshino's work.

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