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40 years since our family's arrival in the United States

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Forty years ago today, my mother Anne, my father Vladimir, my brother Sasha and I arrived in the United States from the Soviet Union (by way of Austria and Italy, where we waited for our visas to come through). Many, many thanks, America!

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.