In the early 1990s, the Dean of New York University School of Law, John Sexton, decided to take a substantial risk. With the advice of colleagues like Norman Dorsen, former longtime President of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Jerome A. Cohen, founder of the modern study of Asian law in the United States, Sexton launched the Global Law ...

Frank K. Upham, Professor, New York University

I first met Professor Song Sang Hyun on my initial trip to Korea in 1977 to attend the Law Asia Conference. I had the unusual experience of travelling to the Conference as part of the Japanese delegation, as I was living in Tokyo at the time as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Tokyo. My main recollection now is being driven in ...

Malcolm Smith, Professor, The University of Melbourne, Australia

It is no small challenge to try to write an appropriate tribute for Professor Sang-Hyun Song. One's mind is immediately flooded with images of the Renaissance man or an idealized vision of an Yi dynasty yangban or the lawyer-statesman, to employ a more contemporary term. That welter of powerful images, each worthy in itself but none fully adequate, ...

- William P. Alford, Professor, Harvard University