Local Attorney Kolbe to Speak at Law Conference in Hungary
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Jennifer Peryam-jperyam@timesuniononline.com
Local attorney David Kolbe will be a guest speaker at the international conference of the Criminal Institution of the Faculty of Law of the University of Miskolc.
Kolbe has been an attorney and president of David Kolbe Attorney At Law since 1986.
The conference Kolbe will speak at is part of the program series celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Law of the University of Miskolc.
Miskolc is a city in northeast Hungary.
The University of Miskolc is the third largest institute of higher education in Hungary.
The university is involved in research and training work both in technical and engineering sciences, and in social and humanistic sciences.
Kolbe will speak on the topic of Developing Tendencies of Criminal Policy in the U.S.A. on Oct. 14.
Kolbe will meet with other international experts on criminal law and several colleagues from abroad including Germany, Austria, Belgium, Slovakia, Turkey, and the Czech Republican, who are invited to attend the conference.
“The program is designed to help countries which at one time were part of the communist and soviet empire who have now achieved their freedom and seek to develop rule of law,” Kolbe said.
Kolbe said he is looking forward to speaking at the conference.
“I consider it a really great honor and I look at this as being an ambassador for the United States,” Kolbe said.
“I think it’s important that we express to the rest of the world the values of the American society.”
Also during Kolbe’s two-week stay in Hungary, he will serve as a visiting senior instructor at the university, teaching law and undergraduate students American Criminal Law.
Kolbe attended DePauw University and Indiana University of South Bend, earning a bachelors degree in 1977 where he was a Modern European History major.
He earned a juris doctorate from Valparaiso University in 1981.
He has served as an instructor for Introduction to American Politics at Indiana University-Purdue, Fort Wayne, since 1996.
Kolbe was a public defender from 1983-1993, and was a former Kosciusko County prosecutor from 1995-1998.
He is a member of Kosciusko County and Indiana State Bar Associations, Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, and Christian Legal Society.
