Harold Koh
Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985. A senior advisor to President Biden, he has served under three other US presidents, including as legal advisor to the secretary of state in the Obama administration and assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor from 1998 to 2001. Early in his career, Koh clerked for US Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun. He has authored eight books and received 17 honorary degrees. The 2021-’22 Eastman Professor at Oxford’s Balliol College, Koh is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of Magdalen College at Oxford
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine and resulting geopolitical instability have caused many to draw parallels to the events preceding World War II. In the post-war years, the inte...