Harold Hongju Koh

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Harold Hongju Koh (2009)

Harold Hongju Koh ( Korean 고홍주 ; born December 8, 1954 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American legal scholar .

Life

His parents, the legal scholar and diplomat Kwang Lim Koh and the sociologist Hesung Chun Koh , emigrated from Korea to the United States. There they teach at Yale University as a university professor.

After finishing school, Koh studied politics at Harvard , as well as law at Oxford and Harvard Law School. After graduating in 1985, Koh got a job as a professor at Yale Law School . From 2004 to 2009 Koh worked there as dean; he succeeded Anthony T. Kronman .

In the meantime he was from November 1998 to January 2001 as Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor ( Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ) in the service of the US State Department . Since 25 June 2009, he is a legal advisor ( Legal Adviser busy) again at the State Department.

Koh is married to the American Mary-Christy Fisher and has two children with her.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000).

Works (selection)

  • 1990: The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair , Yale University Press
  • 1994: Transnational Legal Problems , (in collaboration with Harry Steiner and Detlev Vagts), Foundation Press
  • 1999: Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights , (collaborative with Ronald C. Slye), Yale University Press
  • 2008: Transnational Litigation in United States Courts , Foundation Press

Web links

Commons : Harold Hongju Koh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .