# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-yoo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:48:05.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-yoo"
name: "John Yoo"
slug: "john-yoo"
description: "John Choon Yoo is a South Korean-born American legal scholar and former government official who is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. While serving in the George W. Bush administration, he became known for his legal opinions concerning executive power, warrantless wiretapping, and the Geneva Conventions."
tagline: "American attorney"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Yoo_2012_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.10409949332105
  historical:           9.264029333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3173649"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Yoo"
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    title: "John Yoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo"
    title: "John Yoo"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo"
    title: "John Yoo"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Yoo"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump