Georgetown and George Washington, two universities based in Washington D.C, USA, will join hands to celebrate Jerome A. Cohen’s upcoming 80th birthday.
The conference titled “Six Decades of Asian Law: A Celebration of Professor Jerome Cohen” is scheduled to take place on February 19th 2010, between 14.00 – 18.00, and to held at George Washington’s University School of Law.
Jerome Cohen, a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (“NYU”), received his J.D from Yale Law School in 1955, and was appointed to his position as Professor at NYU in 1990. Previous to this, he had been made Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, in 1964, and 1959 respectively. As well as holding the position of professor at NYU, Jerome Cohen is also a senior partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Professor Cohen is world renowned as an expert of the Chinese legal system.
Edward Lehman, Managing Director of Lehman, Lee & Xu commented that “Professor Cohen is a permanent and predominant figure of Chinese law. His wealth of knowledge and experience of Chinese law is evident by his publications, and academic offices he has, and currently holds.”
Professor Cohen’s background can be located on the NYU website: http://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=19840
Lehman, Lee & Xu is a prominent Chinese corporate law firm and trademark and patent agency with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau, and Mongolia. The firm is recognised as a leading expert in corporate law and intellectual property law. Lehman, Lee & Xu operates an academic partnership with Georgetown School of Law, whereby international summer internships are offered for students to spend time working within one of the firm’s offices within China. In addition to Georgetown, Lehman, Lee & Xu also operates academic partnerships with other universities both within China, and abroad, such as China University of Political Science and Law and Renmin University School of Law.
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