Ronald Rotunda, having received a copy of my post suggesting that he was the professor whom Yoo emailed looking for help on common law defenses, has emailed to say he did not correspond with Yoo at all on these issues. As you’ll recall, last month, I pointed to a section of the report describing Yoo [...]

Update, 3/9/10: Rotunda says he is not the person with whom Yoo had this email exchange. See this post for a discussion of the further puzzles that presents. I apologize to Rotunda for assuming he must be the person in the report. There’s an interesting passage in the OPR report (PDF pages 58-59 in the [...]