Hiram Chodosh is the dean of the S.J.
Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. Prior
to this appointment, he served as the Joseph C. Hostetler - Baker & Hostetler
Professor of Law and associate dean for academic affairs at Case Western Reserve
University School of Law. Chodosh received his JD from Yale Law School and his BA from Wesleyan
University in Connecticut, where he graduated in the top 1% of his class with high
departmental honors in history.
Chodosh is considered one of the
world’s leading experts in global justice reform.
He has been invited to present at over 100 major academic and professional
conferences, including at Yale and Stanford Law Schools, professional meetings, and
government-sponsored conferences in the U.S. and across the world. His widely recognized writings and active advisory
roles have informed national reform initiatives in several countries, including Egypt, India,
and Indonesia. As a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi in
2003, he conducted workshops throughout the sub-continent on the adaptation of mediation
to the Indian legal culture. Since 1999 he has served as an advisor to the International
Monetary Fund on issues of judicial reform, and worked with the Indonesian Supreme Court
and National Law Commission on the design and implementation of a new judicial commission
for the Indonesian court system. Recently, the
UNDP (Asia) appointed Dean Chodosh as an adviser in a study of corruption in the region. |
