Sharon Kang Hom (Chinese: 譚競嫦, born 20 May 1951) is the Executive Director of Human Rights in China, adjunct professor of law at the New York University School of Law, and Professor of Law Emerita at the City University of New York School of Law. Hom taught law for 18 years, including training judges, lawyers, and law teachers at eight law schools in China. Her non-law book publications include Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry (ed.,1999). In 2007, she was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the "50 Women to Watch" for their impact on business.[1] Born in Hong Kong, she lives in New York with her family.
Hom has extensive experience in U.S.-Chinese law training and legal exchange initiatives. She was a Fulbright Scholar in China (1986–88), served on the U.S.-China Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China (CLEEC) (1990–2000), and was a faculty member and program director for the U.S. Clinical Legal Education Workshop convened at Tsinghua University School of Law (2000).[3] She was also a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy (2000).
She served on the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China (CLEEC) (1990–2000), the Committee on Asian Affairs (1998–2002) of the Bar Association of the City of New York,[5] and sits on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Asia (1995–present).[6]
Selected publications
Hom's research and publications focus on Chinese legal reforms, women's rights and international human rights.
Commentary: Re-positioning Human Rights Discourse on “Asian” Perspectives. BUFFALO JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 3:1 (1996): 251-276; Reprinted in NEGOTIATING CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, edited by Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).
Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What's Justice Got to Do with It? In Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, edited by Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001
With Eric Yamamoto, Re-forming Civil Rights in Uncivil Times: The Struggle over Collective Memory and Internationalizing Domestic Rights. UCLA LAW REVIEW 47:6 (August 2000): 1747–1802.
Lexicon Dreams and Chinese Rock and Roll: Thoughts on Culture, Language, and Translation as Strategies of Resistance and Reconstruction. UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 53:4 (July 1999): 1003–1018.
Return(ing) Hong Kong: Journal Notes and Reflections. AMERASIA JOURNAL 23:2 (1997): 55-68.
Law, Ideology & Patriarchy in the People's Republic of China: Feminist Observations of an Ethnic Spectator. THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY 4 (1992): 173–191.
Female Infanticide in China: The Specter of Human Rights and Thoughts Towards (An)other Vision. COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 23:2 (1992): 249–314. Anthologized in CRITICAL RACE FEMINISMS: A LEGAL READER, edited by Adrien Wing (New York: New York University Press, 1997); and Reprinted in CHINESE LAW: SOCIAL, POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES, edited by Tahirih V. Lee (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1997).
Intervention before the Sub Committee on Human Rights, European Parliament Exchange of Views in preparation for the EU-China human rights dialogue, May 3, 2007.
Panelist, “Google and Internet Control in China: A Nexus Between Human Rights and Trade?”, U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, March 24, 2010
Intervention before the Sub Committee on Human Rights, European Parliament Exchange of Views on Human Rights in China and the Role of the European Union following the last meeting of the EU China Human Rights Dialogue, December 5, 2011.
Panelist, “Examination into the Abuse and Extralegal Detention of Legal Advocate Chen Guangcheng and His Family”, U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Washington, D.C., November 1, 2011.
"Values and Strategic Narratives in International Human Rights," Panel on Value of Values: reconsidering the Role of Human Rights in US-China Relations," Wilson Center, Kissinger Institute on China, April 20, 2016.
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