Mark G. Yudof

Professor Emeritus, School of Law, UC Berkeley

Mark G. Yudof, who served as the 19th president of the University of California from June 2008 through September 2013, is a Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and on the Board of Governors for the University of Haifa and the Technion.

He served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from August 2002 to May 2008, and as president of the four-campus University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2002. Before that, he served as dean of the law school at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1994, and as the University’s executive vice president and provost from 1994 to 1997.

President Emeritus Yudof is a renowned authority on constitutional law, freedom of expression, and education law. A Philadelphia native, he earned both LL.B. and B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2013, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion awarded him an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.