Tobias Barrington Wolff
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Tobias Barrington Wolff is a professor of law best known for his legal advocacy on same sex marriage and other LGBT
-related issues. He is openly
gay
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(B.A. 1992) and Yale Law School
(J.D. 1997), where he wrote for the Yale Law Journal
. 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
.
In the academic legal profession, he is known for his scholarly work on civil procedure and class action litigation. During the 2008 presidential campaign, he served as advisor to the Obama campaign on LGBT issues. Wolff has authored a number of briefs submitted to state Supreme Courts in same-sex marriage suits, including those in Hawaii, Alaska, Iowa, and California.
Wolff is the youngest son of the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff
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LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
-related issues. He is openly
Coming out
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gay
Gay
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Biography
Wolff was educated at Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
(B.A. 1992) and Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
(J.D. 1997), where he wrote for the Yale Law Journal
Yale Law Journal
The Yale Law Journal is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School...
. 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
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
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In the academic legal profession, he is known for his scholarly work on civil procedure and class action litigation. During the 2008 presidential campaign, he served as advisor to the Obama campaign on LGBT issues. Wolff has authored a number of briefs submitted to state Supreme Courts in same-sex marriage suits, including those in Hawaii, Alaska, Iowa, and California.
Wolff is the youngest son of the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff
Robert Paul Wolff
Robert Paul Wolff is a contemporary American political philosopher and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Wolff has written widely on many topics in political philosophy such as Marxism, tolerance , political justification and democracy. Wolff is also well known for his work on...
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