May 16, 2008
Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ [Romans10:17]
Faith & Citizenship: A Public Conversation
Faith and Citizenship in Global Perspective
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Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh is Dean of Yale Law School and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law.
He began teaching at Yale Law School in 1985 and has served since 2004 as its fifteenth Dean. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Before joining Yale, he practiced law at Covington and Burling and at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.
Dean Koh is a leading expert on international law and a prominent advocate of human and civil rights. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court and testified before the U.S. Congress more than twenty times. He has been awarded ten honorary doctorates and two law school medals and has received more than twenty five awards for his human rights work. He is recipient of the 2005 Louis B. Sohn Award from the American Bar Association and the 2003 Wolfgang Friedmann Award from Columbia Law School for his lifetime achievements in International Law. He is author of eight books, including Transnational Legal Problems (with H. Steiner and D. Vagts) and The National Security Constitution, which won the American Political Science Association's award as the best book on the American Presidency.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, a former Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Century Foundation. He sits on the Boards of Overseers of Harvard University and on the Board of Directors of the Brookings Institution, Human Rights First, the American Arbitration Association, and the National Democratic Institute. He has been named one of America's “45 Leading Public Sector Lawyers Under The Age of 45†by American Lawyer magazine and one of the “100 Most Influential Asian-Americans of the 1990s†by A magazine.
A Korean-American native of Boston, he holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and served as a law clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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He began teaching at Yale Law School in 1985 and has served since 2004 as its fifteenth Dean. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Before joining Yale, he practiced law at Covington and Burling and at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.
Dean Koh is a leading expert on international law and a prominent advocate of human and civil rights. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court and testified before the U.S. Congress more than twenty times. He has been awarded ten honorary doctorates and two law school medals and has received more than twenty five awards for his human rights work. He is recipient of the 2005 Louis B. Sohn Award from the American Bar Association and the 2003 Wolfgang Friedmann Award from Columbia Law School for his lifetime achievements in International Law. He is author of eight books, including Transnational Legal Problems (with H. Steiner and D. Vagts) and The National Security Constitution, which won the American Political Science Association's award as the best book on the American Presidency.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, a former Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Century Foundation. He sits on the Boards of Overseers of Harvard University and on the Board of Directors of the Brookings Institution, Human Rights First, the American Arbitration Association, and the National Democratic Institute. He has been named one of America's “45 Leading Public Sector Lawyers Under The Age of 45†by American Lawyer magazine and one of the “100 Most Influential Asian-Americans of the 1990s†by A magazine.
A Korean-American native of Boston, he holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and served as a law clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Panelists:
Jennifer Butler, Executive Director, Faith in Public Life
Heidi Hadsell, President, Hartford Seminary
James Joseph, US Ambassador to South Africa, 1996-99
James Laney, US Ambassador to South Korea, 1993-97
Emilie Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American
Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School
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Recorded on Friday, May 4, 2007, 8:30 am EST
Yale Divinity School
Marquand Chapel
New Haven, Connecticut
Length: 90 minutes
source by : www.yale.edu
Jennifer Butler, Executive Director, Faith in Public Life
Heidi Hadsell, President, Hartford Seminary
James Joseph, US Ambassador to South Africa, 1996-99
James Laney, US Ambassador to South Korea, 1993-97
Emilie Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American
Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School
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Recorded on Friday, May 4, 2007, 8:30 am EST
Yale Divinity School
Marquand Chapel
New Haven, Connecticut
Length: 90 minutes
source by : www.yale.edu
