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Phillip Johnson
Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, Emeritus
Office: 794 Simon
Tel: 510 642 5370
Fax: 510 643 2673
E mail: johnsonp@law.berkeley.edu
philjohn@uclink4.berkeley.edu |
Phillip Johnson was born and raised in Aurora, Illinois and graduated from Harvard and the University of Chicago Law Scchool.
After law school, Phillip Johnson clerked for Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court and Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. He joined the faculty of the Boalt School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1967 and has been a Professor Emeritus since 2000.
Johnson has served as deputy district attorney while on leave from his teaching duties and has held visiting professorships at Emory University and at University College, London.
With the publication of his book "Darwin on Trial" in 1991 he began a second career as one of the foremeost critics of Darwin's Theory of Evolution and its wider sociological and cultural implications.
Johnson is one of the leading members of the Intelligent Design movement and has done much to help these ideas gain acceptance and a wider hearing worldwide.
Johnson is the author of several books on evolution, philosophical naturalism, and other cultural issues and speaks extensively around the country. His "Leading Edge" column appears regularly in Touchstone Magazine.
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