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Kiwi Alejandro Danao Camara (born June 16, 1984), also known as K.A.D. Camara, is a Filipino American attorney. In 2001, he became the youngest person to matriculate at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 2004. He was also involved in a racial controversy at the school that attracted national attention. He attracted international media attention in 2009 as the ''pro bono'' defense lawyer of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the defendant in the United States' first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by major record labels to be tried to a jury. ==Background== Kiwi Danao Camara was born in Manila, Philippines, to Enrico Camara and Teresa Danao, both licensed physicians. He is a grandchild of the first ''summa cum laude'' graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, renowned cardiologist, Augusto Camara, M.D. of Iba, Zambales. At age one, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Camara attended the Punahou School.〔 He wrote a medical paper on alternative treatments for rheumatoid arthritis at age 11,〔 which was published in the ''Hawai'i Journal of Medicine''. At 16, having skipped high school, Camara earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science ''summa cum laude'' from Hawaii Pacific University.〔 He completed the program in two years and was recognized by the university for outstanding academic performance.〔 The Philippines awarded him its Jose Rizal Certificate of Achievement while he was in college and later, in 2005, recognized him with a Presidential Commendation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=K.A.D. Camara, Visiting, Faculty Profiles, Faculty & Research, School of Law, Northwestern University )〕 In 2001, Camara enrolled in Harvard Law School. There he received a John M. Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics. He held the fellowship until September 2004, at which time he took a position as a law clerk for Judge Harris Hartz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.〔 Camara held a John M. Olin Fellowship for 2006–2007 and was a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University School of Law. He was previously a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Stanford Law School and was briefly a Ph.D student in Economics at Stanford University.〔 Camara co-founded Camara & Sibley in 2009.〔http://www.azalaw.com〕〔http://www.camarasibley.com/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kiwi Camara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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