Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh is an American law professor, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He publishes the blog The Volokh Conspiracy. He is an academic affiliate of the law firm Mayer Brown.
Volokh was born in to a Jewish family residing in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. He immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of seven. At the age of 12, he began working as a computer programmer. He attended the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics. At the age of 15, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Computer Science from UCLA. As a junior at UCLA, he earned 480 a week as a programmer for 20th Century Fox. During this period, his achievements were featured in an episode of OMNI The New Frontier, a television series hosted by Peter Ustinov.
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