Hiram Chodosh
5th President of Claremont McKenna College
Assumed office
July 1, 2013
Preceded byPamela Gann
Personal details
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Elizabeth, New Jersey
SpousePriya Junnar
Children2
Alma materWesleyan University (BA)
Yale University (JD)
AwardsGandhi Peace Award (2011)
Websitewww.cmc.edu/president

Hiram E. Chodosh (born 1962) is the 5th and current president of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.

Early life and education

Hiram Chodosh was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1962.[1] Raised in nearby Hillside, he graduated from Hillside High School.[2]

He received his B.A. in history from Wesleyan University in 1985, and his J.D. in 1990 from Yale Law School.[3] In his second year at Yale, Chodosh met his wife, Priya Junnar.[4]

Career

Chodosh began his law career in 1990 at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and left in 1993 to join the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Law.[5] In 2003, Chodosh was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar and played a central role in the practice and expansion of mediation in India.[6]

In 2006, Chodosh was appointed as Dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.[7] Under a grant from the U.S. Department of State in 2007, Chodosh founded and directed the Global Justice Project, a law and policy think tank, to advise the Iraqi government.[8] In recognition of his international efforts in legal reform and advocacy for mediation, Chodosh was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2011.[9] In February 2012, he was appointed as the Hugh B. Brown Endowed Chair of the University.[10]

In December 2012, he was selected to be the 5th President of Claremont McKenna College.[11]

Claremont McKenna College

Under Chodosh's leadership, Claremont McKenna College has been able to raise over $200 million in new funding for scholarship and special student opportunities, as well as create new institutions and centers such as the CARE Center, the Soll Center for Student Opportunities, Roberts Pavilion, the Policy Lab, the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab, and the Open Academy.[12]

Selected works

Books

  • Global Justice Reform: A Comparative Methodology (NYU Press, 2005)[13]
  • Law in Iraq: A Document Companion (with co-editor Chibli Mallat, Oxford University Press, 2013)[14]
  • Uniform Civil Code for India: Proposed Blueprint for Scholarly Discourse (with Shimon Shetreet, Oxford University Press, 2016)[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Hiram E. Chodosh". The Inauguration of Pitzer College's Sixth President. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  2. ↑ "Hiram E. Chodosh, Claremont McKenna College's President-Elect", Claremont McKenna College, December 6, 2012. Accessed April 28, 2020. "Chodosh was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and attended Hillside High School in Hillside, New Jersey."
  3. ↑ "Biography of President Chodosh". cmc.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  4. ↑ Affairs, Office of Public; Claremont, Communications 400 N. Claremont Blvd. "Meet the president: An interview". cmc.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Hiram E. Chodosh". The Inauguration of Pitzer College's Sixth President. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  6. ↑ "Biography of President Chodosh". cmc.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  7. ↑ "Hiram E Chodosh". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  8. ↑ "Hiram E. Chodosh". The Inauguration of Pitzer College's Sixth President. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  9. ↑ "Chodosh to Receive 2011 Gandhi Peace Award | S.J. Quinney College of Law". law.utah.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  10. ↑ "Chodosh Appointed Hugh B. Brown Chair | S.J. Quinney College of Law". law.utah.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  11. ↑ "Dean Chodosh to Become President of Claremont McKenna College | S.J. Quinney College of Law". law.utah.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  12. ↑ "Biography of President Chodosh". cmc.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  13. ↑ Chodosh, Hiram E. (2005). Global Justice Reform: A Comparative Methodology. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1635-9. JSTOR j.ctt9qg87r.
  14. ↑ "Law in Iraq". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  15. ↑ Shetreet, Shimon; Chodosh, Hiram E. (2015). Uniform Civil Code for India: Proposed Blueprint for Scholarly Discourse. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198077121.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-908530-9.
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