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Tel: 215.573.9254
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: akolker@law.upenn.edu
Bio
Adam Kolker is Assistant Dean and Executive Director for International Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. At Penn Law, he has directed the expansion of the school’s institutional affiliations abroad and its graduate programs for foreign-trained attorneys, judges and government officials. He also co-teaches, with ICNL President Douglas Rutzen, a cross-disciplinary course on International Civil Society Law (Spring, 2007).
Prior to arriving at Penn Law in May, 2004, Kolker served as Principal with International American Group, Inc., a strategic consulting firm advising clients engaged in cross-border business expansion and joint ventures. He had earlier spent four years in the international practice group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office.
While at both firms, Kolker worked with ICNL and other civil society organizations on a pro bono basis. In addition to providing legal advice, he spoke before non-profit, professional and academic audiences in Japan and across Latin America on legal issues affecting civil society development. He currently serves on ICNL’s Advisory Council.
Kolker graduated with honors from Swarthmore College in 1982, and then spent four years as a diplomat posted at U.S. embassies in Venezuela, Grenada, and Spain. He returned to the United States to pursue a J.D. at Yale, where he graduated in 1989 after serving as Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Following law school, he received a Luce Scholarship to research Japanese Overseas Development Assistance policy in the Tokyo office of Diet Member Motoo Shiina.
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