Harold Hongju Koh
Law professor, Politician
1954 –
Who is Harold Hongju Koh?
Harold Hongju Koh is a Korean American lawyer and legal scholar. He served as the Legal Adviser of the Department of State. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009. He departed as the State Department's legal adviser in January 2013, and returned to Yale as a law professor, being named a Sterling Professor of International Law.
In public service, Koh previously served in the United States Department of State during the Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. In academia, he served as a member of the faculty of Yale Law School, and later as its Dean.
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- Born
- Dec 8, 1954
Boston - Also known as
- Harold Hongju Koh
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Korean American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctor of law, Harvard Law School
Law
( - 1980) - Harvard University
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Harvard College
- Hopkins School
- Master of Arts, University of Oxford
( - 1996)
- Doctor of law, Harvard Law School
- Employment
- Yale Law School
- Lived in
- Boston
- Connecticut
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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