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CLEVELAND: Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School and former assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor under President Clinton, will speak about what the United States must do to restore our human rights reputation in the world at noon on Thursday, September 18, 2008, at The City Club of Cleveland.
Koh, a leading expert on international law and a prominent advocate of human and civil rights, began teaching at Yale Law School in 1985 and was named its dean in 2004.
Koh has received more than 25 awards for his human rights work, including 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 The National Security Constitution, which won the American Political Science Association’s award as the best book on the American Presidency.
Koh is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and the American Philosophical Society. He sits on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and on the boards of the Brookings Institution, Human Rights First, American Arbitration Association, and National Democratic Institute.
A Korean American native of Boston, Koh holds a B.A. from Harvard College, B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He 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.
This Special Forum is in partnership with the Yale Law Section of the Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland.
Tickets are $18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is included. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.
Why Do We Need Bioethics?
Henk A.M.J.ten Have, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology at UNESCO and an advocate for bioethics, will explore the history of bioethics and its resurgence as a global activity and delve into real-life examples of how ethics and the use of principles give direction and clarify problematic situations noon on Friday, September 19, 2008, at The City Club of Cleveland.
Since 1991, Dr. Have has been professor of Medical Ethics and director of the Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2003, he joined UNESCO and has been involved in many public debates concerning euthanasia, drug addiction, genetics, choices in health care, and resource allocation. His research has focused on ethical issues in palliative care, and he has been coordinator of the European Commission funded project Palliative Care Ethics.
Dr. Have serves on numerous editorial boards, is editor-in-chief of the recently established journal, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, and is co-founder and secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. His most recent books include: The Ethics of Palliative Care and Death and Medical Power. With UNESCO he published Environmental Ethics and International Policy and Nanotechnologies, Ethics and Politic.
Dr. Have has studied medicine and philosophy at Leiden University, the Netherlands, receiving his medical degree in 1976 and philosophy degree in 1983. He has worked as a practicing physician and as a professor of philosophy.
Tickets are $18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is included. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN legal analyst and staff writer at The New Yorker, will discuss his newest book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, a look into the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court and the nine people who decide the law of the land, at noon on Friday, September 26, 2008, at The City Club of Cleveland. The Forum will be followed by a book signing with the author.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of the Court will be at stake—Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition. Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities and gives the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore.
Toobin joined CNN from ABC News, where, during his seven-year tenure as a legal analyst, he provided legal analysis on several high profile cases, including the O.J. Simpson civil trial and the Kenneth Starr investigation of the Clinton White House. Toobin received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elian Gonzales custody saga.
Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993, has written articles on such subjects as Attorney General John Ashcroft, the 2001 dispute over Florida's votes for president, the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the trial of Timothy McVeigh.
Previously, Toobin served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn and as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh. He has written several books including A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President; The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson; and Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election.
Tickets are $18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is included. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.
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