Jay Lefkowitz
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​Selected interviews, conversations, and public appearances from Jay Lefkowitz's career in law, government, and public life — from his years as U.S. Special Envoy on Human Rights in North Korea to his reflections on American foreign policy, global health, and the U.S.–Israel relationship.
Jay Lefkowitz joins Harvard Law School's Alan Dershowitz for a wide-ranging discussion of the American–Israeli relationship — its legal, political, and strategic dimensions — drawing on Jay's decades at the intersection of American law, government service, and Jewish communal life.
An interview with Jay Lefkowitz on his service as the first U.S. Special Envoy on Human Rights in North Korea (2005–2009) — a role created by the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 — in which he pressed for international attention to the plight of North Korea's people, from its political prison camps to the refugees fleeing across its borders, and argued that human rights belong at the center of American policy toward Pyongyang.
An oral history interview recorded for the Global Oral History of PEPFAR project, documenting the creation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease. Jay Lefkowitz served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the period of the program's genesis, an experience he later recounted in Commentary in "AIDS and the President — An Inside Account."