Sharon Kang Hom is currently Executive Director of Human Rights in China (HRIC) and professor of law emerita, City University of New York School of Law. She was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of 2007's "50 Women to Watch" for their impact on business.
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Sharon Hom was born in Hong Kong. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar.[1]
Hom has over 16 years of experience in Sino-American 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).[2] She was also a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy (2000).
She has participated in numerous NGO, corporate, multilateral and bilateral consultations and workshops. She has testified on behalf of HRIC before a number of international policy makers, including the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the European Parliament, and has given numerous presentations at major conferences on human rights and China organized by non-governmental groups such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace[3] and World Press Freedom Committee.[4]
She currently sits on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Asia (1995–present)[5] and on the Committee on Asian Affairs (1998–present) of the Bar Association of the City of New York.[6]
Hom's research and publications focus on Chinese legal reforms, trade, technology, corporate social responsibility, and international human rights.