Chodosh

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Posted 8-19-98

Chodosh named to head Cox International Law Center

Hiram E. Chodosh, associate professor of law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has been named director of the school's Frederick K. Cox International Law Center.

Chodosh joined the law school in 1993 as an assistant professor and was appointed associate professor in 1996. Before that he was an associate with the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, where he represented foreign corporations in commercial transactions. Earlier he was an associate with the management consulting firm Orion Consultants, Inc. in New York, and a teaching apprentice at Wesleyan University, where he taught courses in Russian and Chinese languages, Russian drama, and West African dancing.

In addition to teaching at CWRU, Chodosh has worked extensively with the Institute for the Study and Development of Legal Systems (ISDLS), a non-profit, San Francisco-based organization that assists countries in modernizing their legal dispute resolution processes. He has worked as an academic specialist and senior reporter on collaborative studies with judges and lawyers in Egypt, India, Jordan, Pakistan, and the Palestinian territories. These studies have led to articles in international journals at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and New York University.

Chodosh holds a J.D. from Yale University and a B.A. in history from Wesleyan. He has also studied at the University of Ghana; Beijing University; Leningrad State University; the Diavox Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Goethe Institute in Rothenberg, Germany. He lives in Cleveland Heights.

The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center promotes comparative and international legal scholarship by sponsoring visiting speakers and scholars, seminars, symposia, and other special events. It is named for Frederick K. Cox, a law school alumnus and longtime trustee of CWRU.

Founded in 1892, the CWRU School of Law is home to several nationally renowned programs, including the Law-Medicine Center, the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic.

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