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  Harold Hongju Koh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954, Boston) is Dean of the Yale Law School (since July 1, 2004).
Dean Koh is prominent as an advocate of human rights and civil rights, and has argued and written briefs on a wide number of cases before U.S. appellate courts.
Dean Koh is a lifelong fan of the Boston Red Sox.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Hongju_Koh   (318 words)

  
 KOH - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A KOH test is a procedure in which KOH is used to dissolve skin and reveal fungal cells under the microscope
KOH is used as an anisotropic etchant for silicon in MEMS fabrication.
Harold Hongju Koh is the Dean of the Yale Law School
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KOH   (142 words)

  
 Harold Hongju Koh - Boston College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Harold Hongju Koh is Dean of Yale Law School and Gerard C. And Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law.
Harold Koh’s father, Kwang Lim Koh was the first Asian (Korean) to graduate from Boston College Law School.
Koh, his brother, Howard, his mother, Dr. Hesung Chun Koh, and his father were recently named to the K100 -- the 100 leading Koreans and Korean-Americans in the last century of Korean immigration to the United States.
www.bc.edu /schools/law/newsevents/2006-archive/32006   (331 words)

  
 Sec. Koh press conf in Jakarta on human rights
KOH: I have to admit that I should have said that my major activity here has been getting acquainted with the various groups who are involved in the issues that I have been connected with.
KOH: Well, I think, as I said, my special mission for coming here is to start a process of getting acquainted with this country and the challenges that it is facing.
KOH: This was actually just the subject of a discussion that we had with an official of the military, who expressed his view that dual function has been a historic function of the military in this country.
www.etan.org /et/1998/november/22-30/25seckoh.htm   (1991 words)

  
 Libraries Are Temples of the Mind
Koh's father, a Harvard-educated lawyer and professor of Law at Boston University, was soon called upon to serve as Korea's first ambassador to the U.S. From this diplomatic post, he hoped to restore democracy.
Koh's father was faced with the decision either to represent a nondemocratic country or live in exile in the United States.
Koh was faced with a difficult decision: become a tenured professor or use his legal training to fight for the rights of Haitian refugees.
www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0006/koh.html   (945 words)

  
 Connecticut College - Harold Koh, CISLA Lecture 9/22/01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Harold Hongju Koh, international human rights advocate, legal scholar and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, in response to recent events, will speak on September 22 in a lecture titled "The Challenges Ahead" At the event, the college will confer on Mr.
Koh is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr.
Koh has authored more than 70 articles on international law, human rights, constitutional law, and international business transactions and trade, and is author or editor of several books on international relations, law and human rights.
www.conncoll.edu /events/lectures/koh   (358 words)

  
 Koh Named Yale Law School Dean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Harold Hongju Koh, a Yale Law School professor and former Clinton administration official, was named dean of the law school Tuesday.
Koh, 48, has taught international law and human rights at Yale since 1985.
Koh is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford and Harvard Law School.
www.lawschool.com /kohdean.htm   (143 words)

  
 UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures
A distinguished and highly renowned scholar, Harold Hongju Koh is a recognized leader in the field of international law.
Koh is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught law since 1993.
Koh is the author of several books and numerous articles, including "Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights" (with Ronald C. Slye) (1999), and is editor of "Justice Harry A. Blackmun Supreme Court Oral History Project" (1996), which is due for public release in 2004.
www.grad.berkeley.edu /grad/lectures/jefferson/koh.shtml   (329 words)

  
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Harold Hongju Koh and David Swensen will be terrific additions to the group," said John L. Thornton, chairman of the Brookings board.
Koh is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Law Institute, an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and an overseer of Harvard University.
Koh received his A.B. in Government from Harvard College in 1975, an Honours B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford in 1977, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980.
www.brook.edu /rios/data/sources/release-news/8eda8f54efa8ff3d319b0fa60a1415cb.xml   (687 words)

  
 UNM School of Law | News & Events | Announcements | International Law and the Supreme Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Koh has been on the faculty of the Yale Law School since 1985 and became the school’s 15th dean in July 2004.
Koh clerked for Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Koh’s lecture will consider whether the United States Supreme Court is ready for the age of globalization.
lawschool.unm.edu /announcements/simms/index.php   (408 words)

  
 Harold Hongju Koh Biographic Sketch
Harold Hongju Koh was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on November 13, 1998.
Assistant Secretary Koh formerly served as the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr.
Assistant Secretary Koh has authored more than 70 articles on international law, human rights, constitutional law, and international business transactions and trade, and is author or editor of several books on international relations, law and human rights.
www.icasinc.org /bios/koh_hh.html   (325 words)

  
 Discourse.net: Harold Hongju Koh to be Next Dean of Yale Law
Harold was one of my favorite professors in law school, and supervised one of the student papers I wrote and#8212; although I suspect it required him to stifle a fair amount of bemusement at my idiosyncratic ideas.
Yale announed yesterday that Harold Koh will be the next Dean of the Law School.
Harold was one of my favorite professors in law school, and supervised one of the student papers I wrote — although I suspect it required him to stifle a fair amount of bemusement at my idiosyncratic ideas.
www.discourse.net /archives/2003/11/harold_hongju_koh_to_be_next_dean_of_yale_law.html   (155 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Judicial Review -- June 30, 2004
We assess the term with two long-time court watchers: Harold Koh, the new dean of Yale Law School; and Douglas Kmiec, a constitutional law professor at Pepperdine Law School, and former dean of Catholic University Law School.
HAROLD HONGJU KOH: I think there are three themes this term that really counted: Globalization, shared power and foreign affairs and practical politics.
HAROLD HONGJU KOH: Yes, you're referring to the Tennessee versus lane which upheld a key portion of the Americans for disabilities act under Section V of the 14th Amendment.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/jan-june04/scotus_6-30.html   (1967 words)

  
 International Campaign for Tibet: Campaigns: The Panchen Lama: Tibet's Stolen Child: Interview with Harold Koh
Koh advises Secretary Albright on U.S. policy on democracy, human rights, labor, the rule of law, and religious freedom.
Koh clerked for both Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court.
Assistant Secretary Koh: Let me say this: The one thing on which they agreed was that the dialogue would resume, and that I would head it, and that it would be in Beijing.
www.savetibet.org /campaigns/pl/film/interviewkoh.php?printable=yes   (1119 words)

  
 LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document
See Harold Hongju Koh, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and William R. Yeomans, Chief of Staff, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Reply to Questions from the U.N. Committee Against Torture 3 (May 11, 2000) (on file with author).
See generally Harold Hongju Koh, Paying "Decent Respect" to World Opinion on the Death Penalty, 35 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1085 (2002) (arguing for internalization of international standards regarding the execution of persons with mental disabilities).
The pieces of the argument may be found in Koh, supra note 69; Koh, supra note 27; Koh, supra note 20; Koh, supra note 62; Harold Hongju Koh, How Is International Human Rights Law Enforced?, 74 Ind. L.
web.pdx.edu /~kinsella/ps448/koh.html   (15588 words)

  
 Department of State Washington File: Transcript: Koh Special Briefing on Indonesia/Timor Visit
Koh said his party was also struck by the degree of disinformation in the camps.
Koh traveled in a group of seven U.S. government officials and two Indonesian officials to Kupang, Atambua, and Dili, as well as talking to refugees in Bali.
Koh said he had full debriefings with government officials at all levels at the end of his trip.
usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/WF991013/epf304.htm   (3791 words)

  
 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Keynote
Harold Hongju Koh, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, will deliver the 2000 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month keynote address at the Library of Congress on Wednesday, May 17, in Room LJ119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, at 10 a.m.
Koh received a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1975, an Honors B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford University, in 1977, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980.
Koh was sworn in on Nov. 13, 1998, as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
www.loc.gov /today/pr/2000/00-067.html   (404 words)

  
 Simulation Role Profiles: Role Profile on Harold Hongju Koh
Koh, a Korean-American, was born in 1954 and is currently the
and Koh was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary on November 13.
Koh is one of the primary officers in
www.la.utexas.edu /chenry/usme/sp99/roles/0053.html   (533 words)

  
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Koh, the dean of Yale Law School, delivered the inaugural Jon O. Newman Lecture on Law and Justice in Wilde Auditorium, speaking on “The Supreme Court and Global Law.”
Koh is a leader in the protection of international human rights, and he is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale.
The new lecture series is made possible by the Honorable Jon O. Newman, a senior U.S. judge of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and a life regent of the university.
www.hartford.edu /daily/print.asp?id=344   (379 words)

  
 USIS Washington File: TEXT: 11/18 STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE ON HAROLD HONGJU KOH
Koh said, "As Secretary Albright recently put it, `Freedom is America's purpose.' I am honored to have the opportunity to work with the President and the Secretary to promote human rights, democracy, and labor as core goals of U.S. foreign policy."
Koh clerked for both Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackman of the United States Supreme Court, and worked as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Assistant Secretary Koh has authored more than seventy articles on international law, human rights, constitutional law, and international business transactions and trade, and is author or editor of several books on international relations law and human rights.
usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/WF981118/epf314.htm   (382 words)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar
Koh, 48, is one of the country's leading experts on international law, international human rights, national security law and international economic law.
Koh, his brother, Howard, his mother, Dr. Hesung Chun Koh, and his father, the late Dr. Kwang Lim Koh, were recently named to the K100 -- the 100 leading Koreans and Korean-Americans in the last century of Korean immigration to the United States.
Koh lives in New Haven with his wife, Mary-Christy Fisher, an attorney at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, and their children, Emily and William.
www.yale.edu /opa/v32.n10/story1.html   (765 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Harold Hongju Koh is Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985, and has served as the fifteenth Dean since July, 2004.
A Korean-American, Professor Koh and his family moved to New Haven in 1961.
Dean Koh is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was 1997 Waynflete Lecturer), and has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
judiciary.senate.gov /testimony.cfm?id=1345&wit_id=3938   (3105 words)

  
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A powerful recourse for human rights victims is in danger, says Harold Hongju Koh, Professor of International Law at Yale University and former US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Koh maintains that the White House's insistence that the law undermines foreign policy, threatens corporations, and jeopardizes the war on terror is injurious both to human rights world-wide and to the policy and corporate interests it ostensibly promotes.
Harold Hongju Koh, Professor of International Law at Yale University, served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Clinton Administration.
yaleglobal.yale.edu /article.print?id=2121   (1184 words)

  
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Harold Hongju Koh is Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985.
A Marshall Scholar and a graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Harvard Law School, Professor Koh served as law clerk to Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the D.C. Circuit, and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Koh has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim and Century Foundations and has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
www.law.harvard.edu /academics/graduate/hcia/panelist_bio_128.php   (295 words)

  
 Leaders from the ACLU, CIA, and State Department Discuss Civil Liberties
Koh: I think we all agree that we are in a situation of changed circumstances, but at the same time, we don’t want to exceed good judgment.
This does not mean that they have to agree with everything that I say or that Harold says, but that they are aware of the importance of the civil liberties tradition to the country and the future of, if I may not be too bold, Western enlightenment values.
Koh: In a time of crisis, authoritarianism often ends up getting supported, even though the people who assert that as a position may not be fascist.
www.amacad.org /events/civil_liberties_trans.aspx   (9859 words)

  
 War, Terrorism, and Torture: Limits on Presidential Power in the 21st Century : Indiana Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
These are among the crucial questions addressed by distinguished panelists and keynote speaker Harold Hongju Koh, the dean of Yale Law School and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law.
Harold Hongju Koh served as assistant secretary of state for democracy, Human Rights and Labor, from 1998 to 2001.
Dean Koh has been awarded nine honorary doctorates and two law school medals and has received more than 25 awards for his human rights work.
www.law.indiana.edu /front/special/20051007_presidential.shtml   (1192 words)

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