Updated at 7:42 a.m., Monday, March 12, 2007
Asian legal studies founder speaking at UH
Advertiser Staff
The founder of Asian legal studies in the United States will be the featured speaker today at the University of Hawai'i's law school.Jerome A. Cohen, a professor of law at New York University School of Law, leads "Normalizing U.S.–China Relations, 1966–1979: Memoirs of an Academic Participant-Observer."
He'll be speaking from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the East-West Center, Burns Hall, Room 4005/4009.
According to a UH news release, Cohen pioneered international law practice relating to China when he opened a law office in Beijing in 1979. He is the co-director of the new Chinese-American Law Center at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and is a director of the National Committee on U.S.–China Relations.
The event is open to the public.
