U of M regent, local Hmong leader dies at age 52
Kao Ly Ilean Her died Thursday.
Author: Kao Ly Ilean Her, a Hmong-American leader and University of Minnesota Board regent, has died at age 52 from complications of COVID-19.
Her, an active civic leader who devoted her life to improving the lives of Hmong women, died Thursday with a few of her family members by her side, and the rest of her family present via video, a Go Fund Me page dedicated to creating a memorial fund in her honor says.
She was born in Laos and fled to the United States in 1976. Her graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School and was the first Hmong woman admitted to the Minnesota Bar Association, the Pioneer Press says.
Lucy Williams is a
law professor at Northeastern University, faculty director of its Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, and co-director of its Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her activism and scholarship have focused on domestic and global inequality. She founded and has coordinated for 15 years the International Social and Economic Rights Project, a group of academics, judges and activists primarily from the Global South working to encourage transformative thinking about social and economic rights.
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Domingo Lovera-Parmo is an
Associate professor of Law at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). Ll.M. Columbia University (2007), Ph.D. Osgoode Hall Law School (2016). His research focuses on
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Hari Osofsky has focused on building legal and international affairs education.
Hari M. Osofsky, dean of Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs and Distinguished Professor of Law, professor of international affairs and professor of geography, has been appointed dean of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, effective Aug. 1. She is also appointed the Myra and James Bradwell Professor.
“I am thrilled to welcome Hari Osofsky into the Northwestern University community,” Provost Kathleen Hagerty said. “Her dynamic experience as a leader, scholar and mentor further strengthens Northwestern Pritzker Law’s national reputation for excellence and innovation at a time when we are reimagining our approaches to society’s injustices.”
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Hari M. Osofsky, dean of Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs and Distinguished Professor of Law, professor of international affairs and professor of geography, has been appointed dean of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, effective Aug. 1. She is also appointed the Myra and James Bradwell Professor.
“I am thrilled to welcome Hari Osofsky into the Northwestern University community,” Provost Kathleen Hagerty said. “Her dynamic experience as a leader, scholar and mentor further strengthens Northwestern Pritzker Law’s national reputation for excellence and innovation at a time when we are reimagining our approaches to society’s injustices.”