Our Advisory Council

Lee C. Bollinger

Lee C. Bollinger is the president of Columbia University. A professor at Columbia Law School, he is renowned for his legal scholarship on the First Amendment and freedom of speech and commitment to diversity in higher education. Past positions in his distinguished career as an author, lawyer and university leader include president of the University of Michigan, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and provost of Dartmouth College.

Harold Hongju Koh

Harold Hongju Koh is Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985. He is one of the nation's leading experts in human rights and international law, and has received more than 20 awards for his human rights work. Dr. Koh has authored more than 80 articles and written or co-written 8 books. From 1998-2001, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (in memoriam)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., educator and author, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for history and biography. He was appointed special assistant to President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and served in the White House throughout his administration. A co-founder of Americans for Democratic Action, he was the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at the Graduate School of the City University of New York before retiring in 1996.