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Corey Rayburn Yung

Associate Professor
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Phone: 312.386.2863
Email: cyung@jmls.edu

BA, University of Iowa
JD, University of Virginia School of Law

Scholarship | SSRN Publications

Corey Rayburn Yung joined the faculty in 2007. He teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, and a Sex Crimes seminar. His scholarship is primarily focused on sex crimes, judicial decision-making, and legal interpretation. Yung's articles have appeared or will be appearing in, among other journals, the Northwestern University Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, George Washington Law Review, and Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review. His law review pieces regarding sex offender laws have been cited by several federal courts. In particular, his article concerning capital rape statutes was cited favorably by the United States Supreme Court majority opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana. Regarding sex crimes and federal judiciary issues, Yung is regularly consulted by the media and has been quoted in, among other news media, the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and Washington Post.

Before joining the faculty, Yung was a law clerk for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Yung was also an associate at Shearman & Sterling in New York. At Shearman & Sterling, Yung helped create a training program for the Liberian criminal defense bar, assisted the Office for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, represented a death row inmate in Florida, and directed and coordinated efforts during bribery investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Yung regularly assists in Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act and other sex crime cases. In a case decided in 2010, Carr v. United States, he was a coauthor of amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of law professors.

Full Curriculum Vitae

Scholarship

Beyond Ideology: An Empirical Study of Partisanship and Independence in the Federal Courts, 80 George Washington Law Review __(forthcoming 2012)

The Disappearing Ex Post Facto Clause: From Substantive Bulwark to Procedural Nuisance, __ Syracuse Law Review __(2011)

Sex Offenders, Exceptionalism, and Preventative Detention, __ The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology __ (2011)

The Ticking Sex Offender Bomb, __ The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice __ (2011)

Flexing Judicial Muscle: An Empirical Study of Judicial Activism in the Federal Courts, 105 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (2011)

Judged by the Company You Keep: An Empirical Study of the Ideologies of Federal Judges, 51 Boston College Law Review 1133 (2010)

The Emerging Criminal War on Sex Offenders, 45 Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review 435 (2010)

"The Death Penalty" in Sex Offender Laws: Failed Policies, New Directions (Richard G. Wright ed.), New York: Springer (2009)

One of These Laws is Not Like the Others: Why the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act Raises New Constitutional Questions, 46 Harvard Journal on Legislation 369 (2009)

The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act and the Commerce Clause, 21 Federal Sentencing Reporter 133 (2008)

Is Military Law Relevant to the "Evoling Standards of Decency" Embodied in the Eighth Amendment?, 103 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 140 (2008)

Banishment by a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders, 85 Washington University Law Review 101 (2007)

To Catch a Sex Thief: The Burden of Performance in Rape and Sexual Assault Trials, 15 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 436 (2006)