Ellen Bork

Ellen E. Bork[1] is an American human rights activist, attorney, former government official, and political columnist.

Ellen Bork
Alma materYale University (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)
Parent(s)

Early life and education

Bork is the daughter of legal scholar and former U.S. Circuit Court Judge Robert Bork. During her childhood, she was raised in Chicago, Illinois and New Haven, Connecticut. Bork has two brothers, Robert and Charles. In 1980, Bork's mother, Claire Davidson, died of cancer.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.[3]

Career

In the mid-1980s, Bork served in the United States Department of State, United States Department of Education and International Republican Institute. She has served as an election observer in Cambodia and Indonesia. From 1996 to 1998, Bork was the staffer on the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, specializing on Asia and the Pacific.

From 1998 to 1999, she served as counsel to Martin Lee, then Chairman of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, and from 2001 to 2002, she was a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Center in Brussels. She also served at Freedom House as deputy director of the Project for the New American Century and in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Weekly Standard, Humanitarian Affairs Review, World Affairs, and The Forward.[4][5] Additionally, she wrote a column for the New York Sun. As a columnist, Bork has been associated with the neoconservative movement.[6][7][8]

References
  1. "Paid Notice: Deaths BORK, ELIZABETH KUNKLE". The New York Times. 2004-01-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  2. Vile, John R. (2003). Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-989-8.
  3. Bronner, Ethan (2012-12-19). "A Conservative Whose Supreme Court Bid Set the Senate Afire". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  4. Bork, Ellen (2012). "TIBET'S TRANSITION: Will Washington Take a Stand?". World Affairs. 175 (3): 38–44. ISSN 0043-8200. JSTOR 41639017.
  5. Bork, Ellen (2015). "CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: India, China, and Tibet". World Affairs. 178 (1): 52–58. ISSN 0043-8200. JSTOR 43555282.
  6. "The Hong Kong pan-dems and the United States neo-cons". South China Morning Post. 2014-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  7. Corn, David. "Neocons Push Obama to Go Beyond a Punitive Strike in Syria". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  8. "The PNAC (1997-2006) and the Post-Cold War 'Neoconservative Moment". E-International Relations. 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2020-08-14.


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