[KS] Invitation to ICAS Annual Liberty Award Dinner
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From: Sang Joo Kim / ICAS
November 7, 2000
INVITATION TO
ICAS Annual Liberty Award Dinner
December 21, 2000 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Sheraton University City Hotel Palmaire Room
36th & Chestnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Guest of Honour:
The Honourable Harold Hongju Koh
Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
U S Department of State
Special Appearance:
Hesung Chun Koh*
Chair and President
East Rock Institute
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
*mother of Harold Hongju Koh
Lawrence R Klein
ICAS Distinguished Fellow
Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania
Nobel Laureate
For further information on collaboration/contribution/reservation,
please contact
Sang Joo Kim
ICAS
965 Clover Court
Blue Bell, PA 19422
T: (610) 277-9989
T: (610) 277-0149
F: (610) 277-3992
E: icas at dvol.com
http://www.ICASinc.org
Very respectfully,
Sang Joo Kim
ICAS
N. B. Below is a brief biographical sketch of Harold Koh:
Dear Friend:
We are pleased to share with you that The Hon Harold Hongju Koh,
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour,
U S Department of State, will be the Guest of Honour at the ICAS
Annual Liberty Award Dinner on December 21, 2000.
Harold Hongju Koh was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on November 13, 1998. A Korean-
American, he was nominated by President Clinton on September 10, 1998
and confirmed by the Senate on October 21, 1998.
As Assistant Secretary, Koh advises Secretary Albright on U.S. policy
on democracy, human rights, labor, the rule of law, and religious
freedom. Assistant Secretary Koh formerly served as the Gerard C. and
Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director of
the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at
Yale Law School. Before beginning his professorship at Yale in 1985,
Harold clerked for both Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the
United States Supreme Court. He worked in private practice in
Washington, DC and as an attorney at the Office of Legal Counsel at
the U.S. Department of Justice.
Assistant Secretary Koh has authored more than 70 articles on
international law, human rights, constitutional law, and international
business transactions and trade, and is author or editor of several
books on international relations, law and human rights. He is the
winner of the 1991 Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Political
Science Association for the best book on the American Presidency and a
1996 Guggenheim Fellowship. Harold has received numerous honors for his
human rights work, including an Honorary Doctor of Laws from City
University of New York Law School, the Asian American Bar Association
of New York's 1997 Outstanding Lawyer of the Year Award and recognition
by American Lawyer magazine in 1997 as one of the country's 45 leading
public sector lawyers under the age of 45.
Assistant Secretary Koh earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 1975,
an Honours B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1977, and
a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980. He has been a Visiting Fellow
and Lecturer at Magdalen and All Souls Colleges, Oxford University, and
has taught at The Hague Academy of International Law, the University of
Toronto, and the George Washington University National Law Center.
He is married to Mary-Christy Fisher, an attorney, and has two children,
Emily and William.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Sang Joo Kim / signed
Sr. Fellow & Executive Vice President
ICAS
N.B.
previous ICAS LIBERTY AWARD honouree:
Tony P Hall (U S Congressman, D-3rd Ohio)
Charles Kartman (Ambassador & Special Envoy to the Korean Peace Talks
U S Department of State)
Jeong H Kim (President, Carrier Networks, Lucent Technologies)
Lawrence R Klein (Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics Emeritus,
University of Pennsylvania; Nobel Laureate)
Jerome J Shestack(Sr Partner, Wolf Block Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP;
former President, American Bar Association)
Richard L Walker (James F Byrnes Professor Emeritus, University of
South Carolina; former Ambassador to South Korea)
Curt Weldon# (U S Congressman, R-7th Pennsylvania)
#1998 Annual Dinner speaker
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ICAS Annual Liberty Award Dinner 2000 Committee:
Chair:
Synja P Kim
Honourary Chair:
Britton Chance
Lawrence R Klein
Martin Meyerson
Harry Carl Schaub
Jerome J Shestack
Co-Chair:
Enid H Adler
Young Wha Baek
Joon J Bang
Jerry Boucher
Soo Young Chang
Shaun Cho
Carl Guarino
Yong Chon Hong
Bang Nam Jeon
Young H Jeon
C K Kang
Michael M Kang
Chong Sang Kim
Il Hwan Kim
Sang Joo Kim
Hyeon Yeong Kwak
Young Bin Lee
James Moon
Dennis M O'Dowd
David Oh
Sung Won Paek
Xingyi Que
Choon Ki Yoo
Tae Hee Yoon
(list in progress)
Collaborator:
Council for America My Country
Courtesy Travel, Inc.
Friendship Tennis Club
Philadelphia Bar Association
International Human Rights Committee
International Law Committee
(list in progress)
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