Harold Koh is the Dean of Yale Law School and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law.  From 1998 to 2001, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.  Dean Koh is a leading expert on international law and a prominent advocate of human and civil rights. In 1993, he argued before the United States Supreme Court in Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government's Haitian interdiction program. He has testified before the U.S. Congress more than twenty times.  Dean Koh has been awarded ten honorary doctorates and two law school medals, and has received more than twenty-five awards for his human rights work. He is the recipient of the 2005 Louis B. Sohn Award from the American Bar Association and the 2003 Wolfgang Friedmann Award from Columbia Law School for his lifetime achievements in international law. He is author and co-author of eight books, including Transnational Legal Problems and The National Security Constitution, which won the American Political Science Association's award as the best book on the American presidency. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was developments editor of the Harvard Law Review, and served as a law clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

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"The Bright Lights of Freedom" - Harold Koh on National Public Radio, February 13, 2006