The funeral of Professor Luu Van Dat took place on March 6, 2024, at the Funeral Home of the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Hospital.
Professor, Lawyer Luu Van Dat was part of the group of intellectuals who participated in the revolutionary government from the first months of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He was also one of the first 10 lawyers of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Born in 1921 in a middle-class family in Gian Khau village, Gia Vien district (Ninh Binh province), with a father who was a teacher, Professor Luu Van Dat was famous for his good study since primary school. In 1934, he passed the entrance exam to Buoi school, one of the two high schools in Vietnam at that time and ranked 3rd. With the top achievement in the following years, he passed the Baccalaureate part 1 and part 2 and became a law student at the University of Indochina. He was one of nearly 30 students transferred to the 2nd year of university from several hundred who initially registered. By the 3rd year, only about 20 people graduated with a bachelor's degree, including 5-7 French people. He ranked 2nd in the class, after Lawyer Nguyen Thuong.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Laws, he continued to study for a Master's degree in Law and Politics - Economics. With more than 52 years of working in the commercial sector, he has held many important positions: Director of the Department of Commerce and Director of the Department of Foreign Trade (Ministry of National Economy), Director of many departments of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Foreign Trade; Chief of Office (Ministry of Foreign Trade), Director of the Institute of Foreign Economics (Ministry of Foreign Economics), Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Economics, Ministry of Trade, etc.
He participated in the drafting committee of many economic laws during the open door period, including the Law on Foreign Investment in Vietnam, which he chaired when it was passed in 1987, which surprised many countries with its progress at a time when Vietnam had just begun to open up.
Professor Luu Van Dat is also one of the people who initiated the establishment of the Vietnam Association of Agent Orange Victims. He attended many international conferences to fight for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims.
He served four terms as Chairman of the Legal Democracy Advisory Council of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and many terms as a member of the Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee. Closely involved in the work of the Front, he made many contributions to the process of building the Law on the Vietnam Fatherland Front in 1999 and had many comments on the Law on the Front in 2015.
What is special is that Professor Luu Van Dat not only participated in the Front's work at the Central level, he also directly worked as the Head of the Front's Work Committee in the residential area where he lived for 20 consecutive years.
In 2014, at the 8th Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Professor Luu Van Dat officially retired from the Front, at the age of 93. When this information was announced at the Congress, the entire hall stood up and applauded continuously to express gratitude to an intellectual who had been involved in the Front's work for many years, always for the "legitimate and legitimate interests of the people".
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