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Summer 2002
The Contrarian
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Thinker,
writer, social critic, computer techie, Internet hotshot: Law Professor
Eugene Volokh defies easy classification
 By
Catherine Seipp '78
Photography By Jilly Wendell
UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh was racing through a light
that had just turned red one morning when he noticed something:
The intersection had one of those cameras that catch traffic scofflaws
in the act. Most people might have been annoyed at the thought of
getting a ticket; most libertarians, and Volokh '83, J.D. '92 is
one, would probably also find the incident a creepy object lesson
in Big Brotherism. But more than anything, Volokh is a contrarian,
which in his case means less that he enjoys going against the grain
than that he can't help seeing the unexamined facets of issues more
conventional thinkers overlook.
Musing about the incident as he sped along, he began forming in
his mind an op-ed piece — it appeared a couple of weeks later
in The Wall Street Journal — about how enforcing traffic laws
via cameras actually frees citizens from unpleasant government interference.
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