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'''Viet Dinh''', 3637, is described in a biographical note as "professor of law and director of the Asian Law and Policy Studies Program at [[Georgetown University]] in Washington, D.C." [http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_208.html] Born on February 22, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam, Dinh came to America as a refugee in 1978. "After law school, where he was a class marshal and an [[Olin]] research fellow in law and economics, Professor Dinh served as 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]]. He also served as counsel to the Special Master mediating a number of lawsuits by Holocaust victims against German and Austrian financial institutions. Most recently, Professor Dinh served as Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy in the U.S. [[Department of Justice]]," the biographical note released by [[News Corporation]] states. In a media release announcing his appointment to the board of News Corporation in April 2004, the company chairman and chief executive [[Rupert Murdoch]] stated "Viet Dinh has had a remarkable career that has earned him the respect and admiration of legal scholars, politicians and business leaders. Having arrived in America as a Vietnamese refugee at age 10, Viet's academic brilliance and sheer hard work have propelled him to the very top of his field. His work as a key advisor to the [[Bush Administration]] in the [[war on terror]] has been invaluable to the security of the American people." [http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_208.html] While the News Corporation news release has much in common with the biographical profile of Dinh on the Department of Justice website, there was a notable omission. "He 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," the DoJ website profile stated. [http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/vietdinh.htm] "As an academic, he specialized in constitutional law, corporations law, and the law and economics of development," it stated. Some of his published work includes: *"Reassessing the Law of Preemption", ''Georgetown Law Journal'', Volume 88 Number 2085, 2000; *"What Is the Law in Law and Development?", ''The Green Bag'', Volume 3 Number 19, 1999; *"Codetermination and Corporate Governance in a Multinational Business Enterprise", ''Journal of Corporate Law'', Volume 24 Number 975, 1999. *"Races, Crime, and the Law", ''Harvard Law Review'', Volume 111 No 1289, 1988. Following his appointment one media article decribed Dinh as "the primary author of the controversial [[Patriot Act I]]". [http://afr.com/premium/articles/2004/04/18/1082226632748.html] == External Links == *News Corporation, "[http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_208.html News Corporation Elects Two New Directors: Resignation Of Graham Kraehe Becomes Effective]", Media Release, April 16, 2004. * U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy, "[http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/vietdinh.htm Assistant Attorney General Viet D. Dinh]", undated, accessed April 2004. *Sean Aylmer, "[http://afr.com/premium/articles/2004/04/18/1082226632748.html Bush adviser joins News Corp board]", ''Australian Financial Review'', April 19, 2004. *Peter Boyer, "[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/interviews/vietdinh.html Once upon a time in Arkansas]", ''Frontline'', PBS, 1998.