Institute for Corean-American Studies Viet D Dinh Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D C Biographic Sketch Prior to his entry into government service, Dinh was Professor of Law and Deputy Director of Asian Law and Policy Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center. Viet graduated magna cum laude from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a Class Marshal and an Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics. He was a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Viet served as Associate Special Counsel to the U S Senate Whitewater Committee, as Special Counsel to Senator Pete V Domenici for the Impeachment Trial of the President, and as counsel to the Special Master in In re Austrian and German Bank Holocaust Litigation . He is a member of the District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court bars. As an academic, Viet specialized in constitutional law, corporations law, and the law and economics of development. His representative publications include Reassessing the Law of Preemption, 88 GEO. L.J. 2085 (2000); What Is the Law in Law and Development?, 3 THE GREEN BAG 2D 19 (1999); Codetermination and Corporate Governance in a Multinational Business Enterprise, 24 J. CORP. L. 975 (1999); and Races, Crime, and the Law, 111 HARV. L. REV. 1289 (1998). Born on February 22, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam, Viet came to America as a refugee in 1978. After 2 years in Portland, Oregon, his family settled in Fullerton, California. He currently resides in Washington, D.C. ICAS Web Site Links for Viet D Dinh: Bulletin of 9/13/02 Bulletin of 12/23/02 This page last updated 12/28/2002 jdb

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