Hiram E. Chodosh is President and Henry R. Kravis and George R. Roberts Chair in Leadership at Claremont McKenna College, a highly selective liberal arts college in California. He will assume the position of Visiting Fellow at Regent’s Park College on 1 July 2026.

As an expert in comparative and international law, with a focus on the reform of legal systems, President Chodosh’s academic publications include Judicial Independence: Cornerstone of Democracy (with Shimon Shetreet, eds., Brill Nijhoff, 2024); Uniform Civil Code of India: A Blueprint for Scholarly Discourse (with Shimon Shetreet, Oxford University Press, 2016); and Global Justice Reform: A Comparative Methodology (NYU Press, 2005). In 2011, he received the Gandhi Peace Award. In 2013 he was recognized as one of the 25 most influential legal educators in the United States.

President Chodosh is a national leader in U.S. higher education. Completing a record-breaking $1.1 billion campaign (the largest in liberal arts history), he has led the development of many celebrated programs and facilities that have earned top national recognition in open inquiry, free expression, political awareness, friendliness, student satisfaction, post-graduate success, campus architecture, fundraising per student, financial strength, and best-run: the Open Academy (freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity, and constructive dialogue); the Kravis Department of Integrated Sciences (a revolutionary approach to undergrad sciences education) and its iconic home, the Robert Day Sciences Center; the CARE Center; the Soll Center for Student Opportunity; and a new Sports Bowl and expanded Roberts Campus.