He works at the law school. I don't have much respect for a torture apologist like Yoo, but this really doesn't have anything anything to do with ideology, considering that they're honoring him for his work at the law school and they honor a pro-privacy rights law professor right above him...
I think the fact that John Yoo has a history of what could be construed as coming
very close to outright arguing against the rule of law is of great relevance to his law school work, but I guess that characterization of what he did is subjective.