Tobias Barrington Wolff

Tobias Barrington Wolff (born 1970) is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches classes on sexuality and the law, same sex marriage and human rights. He is well known for his legal advocacy on same sex marriage and other LGBT-related issues, and has served as the chief advisor and spokesperson on LGBT issues for Barack Obama throughout his 2007-08 presidential campaign. He is openly gay.[1]

Biography

Wolff was educated at Yale University (BA 1992) and Yale Law School (JD 1997), where he transferred after his first year.[2] At Yale, he wrote for the Yale Law Journal.[3] After clerking for Ninth Circuit Federal Appeals Court judges William A. Norris and Betty Fletcher, Wolff spent two years as an associate at Paul, Weiss before beginning his academic legal career. He has taught at UC Davis, Stanford, and Northwestern Law Schools. He is currently professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania.[4]

Wolff is the youngest son of the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff.

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References

  1. ↑ Kavanaugh, Colin (23 October 2008), "From health care to tech, profs advise Obama", The Daily Pennsylvanian, retrieved 18 March 2010
  2. ↑ "NYU Law - Faculty, Tobias Barrington Wolff: Overview", New York University School of Law, retrieved 18 March 2010
  3. ↑ Wolff, Tobias Barrington (October 1996), "Principled Silence", Yale Law Journal, 106 (1), retrieved 18 March 2010
  4. ↑ Vernon Rosario, 'When Liberty is the Price of Homophobia', in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Jan-Feb 2010, p. 39

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