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For Immediate Release
October 17, 2006
Contact:
Kara Tershel
Elissa Free
(202) 662-9500
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Announcement of the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights at Georgetown Law
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Harold Hongju Koh
Dean, Yale Law School and human rights advocate
Address: “Father Drinan’s Revolution”
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Monday, October 23, 2006, 4:00 p.m. |
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Georgetown University Law Center
Hart Auditorium – McDonough Hall
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
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Robert F. Drinan, S.J., has been a professor at Georgetown Law since 1981. He served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts for five terms and as the dean of Boston College Law School. A leading voice in the human rights movement for more than half a century, Drinan has traveled on humanitarian missions around the globe and is affiliated with numerous organizations devoted to the furtherance of human rights. He is the author of 12 books and has received countless honors for his humanitarian work, including the American Bar Association (ABA) Medal and the Congressional Distinguished Service Award.
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Harold Hongju Koh is dean and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. From 1998-2001, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. A graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Harvard Law, he served as law clerk to Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to coming to Yale, Koh practiced law at Covington & Burling and at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department. He has authored or co-authored eight books and has received numerous awards for his human rights work.
Media interesting in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.
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