Harold Hongju Koh

Harold Hongju Koh was Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor during the Clinton administration. He is (2004) Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale University [1].

Professional History

• Professional Positions Developments Editor, Harvard Law Review
• Admitted to the bar in New York, 1981
• Admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., 1981
• Admitted to the bar in Connecticut, 1985
• Law Clerk for Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1980-81
• Law Clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, 1981-82
• Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., 1982-83
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, George Washington University National Law Center, 1982-85
• Attorney-Advisor, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 1983-85
• Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, 1998-2001
• Associate Professor, Yale, 1985-90
• Professor, Yale, 1990-93
• Smith Professor, Yale, 1993-
• Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, 1993-98
• Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, 1996-97
• Honorary Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford, 2000-
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000-
• Dean, Yale, 2004-

Government Positions

• Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor United States Department of State
• Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe -- Commissioner
• U.S. Delegate or Head of Delegation to:

• United Nations General Assembly (Third Committee) the United Nations Human Rights Commission
• the Organization of American States
• the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
• the U.N. Committee Against Torture
• Inaugural Community of Democracies Meeting (Warsaw 2000)
• U.N. Conference on New and Restored Democracies (Cotonou, Benin 2000)

Affiliations

• NDI – Board of Directors
• Human Rights First – Board of Directors (formerly known as Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)
• The Security and Peace Initiative – advisory board [2]
• Human Rights in China – Director
• Democracy Coalition Project – US Advisory Board
• Interights – Advisory Council

Other Chapters

• Koh Selling Humanitarian Bombing