President Donald Trump's decision to order the bombings of three nuclear sites in Iran has heightened concern about the ...

State Department legal adviser Harold Hongju Koh was savage during policy debates about aerial drones and other issues in the early days of the Obama White House. “It was, ‘Jane, you ignorant ...

Today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will render its decision on the Obama administration's most incendiary appointment yet: Harold Hongju Koh. In the weeks since his nomination for the ...

In the year since Yale tapped Harold Hongju Koh to steer the Law School, he had been pegged as a potential Supreme Court appointee by Democratic Sen. John Kerry ’66. But the fervor has died down since ...

WASHINGTON — Harold Hongju Koh, an outspoken advocate of human rights and international law, has been chosen to be the top lawyer at the State Department. Koh, dean at the Yale Law School, has ...

WASHINGTON — As dean of Yale Law School, Harold Hongju Koh was among the fiercest critics of President George W. Bush’s “war on terror,” arguing that his administration had trampled the ...

Harold Hongju Koh is a tweedy, brainy legal scholar who writes brilliant law-review articles that are carefully reasoned, if more or less impenetrable to non-lawyers. He will likely be confirmed ...

President Barack Obama nominated Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh on Monday to the position of legal adviser to the Department of State. Upon confirmation by the Senate Foreign Relations ...

Harold Hongju Koh, one of the nation's most prominent liberal lawyers and currently the Dean of Yale Law School,will head over to the State Department as a legal advisor, the administration just ...

Now that his successor has been named, what happens if Harold Hongju Koh fails to win confirmation as legal adviser to the Department of State? Put it this way: Yale officials really, really don’t ...

Harold Hongju Koh, formerly legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, is Sterling Professor of International Law and Co-Director of the Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School. June 27, 2025 June 27, ...