Harold Koh
Harold Koh
Harold Hongju Kohis an American lawyer and legal scholar. He served as the Legal Adviser of the Department of State. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009. He departed as the State Department's legal adviser in January 2013, and returned to Yale as a law professor, being named a Sterling Professor of International Law...
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth8 December 1954
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