Harold Hongju Koh
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| Harold Hongju Koh | |
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| Korean Name | |
| Revised Romanization | Koh Hong-Ju |
| McCune-Reischauer | Goh Hong-Ju |
| Hangul | 고홍주 |
| Hanja | 高洪株 |
A Korean American, Dean Koh became Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on November 13, 1998. He was nominated by President Clinton on September 10, 1998 and confirmed by the Senate on October 21, 1998.
He has four degrees, was a law clerk to Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court, and has held a variety of positions in private practice, government service, and academia.
Dean Koh is the author of a number of books, including The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair (Yale University Press,1990); Transnational Legal Problems (with Harry Steiner and Detlev Vagts, Foundation Press, 1994); and Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights (with Ronald C. Slye, Yale University Press, 1999). He has also written many book chapters, law review articles, and other published works.
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. He received the Human Rights Award of the Cuban-American Bar Association in 1994, the Justice in Action Award from the Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund in 1993, and the Human Rights Award of the American Immigration Lawyers' Association in 1992 for his work.
Dean Koh has testified before the U.S. Congress more than a dozen times. In January 2005, Dean Koh, along with Franklin Pierce Law Center dean John Hutson, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the appointment of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general of the United States, because of his alleged role in attempting to provide legal guidance to the U.S. military justifying abusive interrogation practices, including that the War on Terror "renders obsolete" and "renders quaint" aspects of the Geneva Conventions. He is the brother of former Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Howard Koh.
Dean Koh is a lifelong fan of the Boston Red Sox.
External links
- [Faculty profile at Yale Law]
- [Faculty C.V. at Yale Law]
- [Interview]
- [Profile]
- [The Bright Lights of Freedom], Koh's radio essay on freedom and democracy that was broadcast on NPR
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