POSTPONED - Inside the Biden Administration’s Effort to Restore International Law and Institutions - Harold Hongju Koh

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The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law presents

Inside the Biden Administration’s Effort to Restore International Law and Institutions

Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law and former Dean at Yale Law School

About the event: 
Donald Trump and his administration ravaged the world of international law and institutions. During his campaign, Joe Biden pledged to restore it. After a year in office, how successful has he been? 
 

About the speaker:
Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law and former Dean at Yale Law School, gives his unique perspective on this question. Currently George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College, Professor Koh has served under four US presidents, as Senior Advisor (2021-present) and Legal Adviser to the US Secretary of State (2009-2013), Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1998-2001), Attorney-Adviser at the US Department of Justice (1983-1985), and as a law clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the US Supreme Court (1981-82), and Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (1980-81). Professor Koh is the author of eight books and more than 200 articles. He is an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Fellow of the American Philosophical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Council Member of the American Law Institute, and previously was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College Oxford and the Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science and a Fellow of Trinity and Christ’s Colleges, Cambridge (2018-19). A graduate of Harvard, Oxford and Harvard Law School, he has received 17 honorary degrees and more than thirty awards for his work in human rights and international law, including awards from the American Bar Association and Columbia Law School for his lifetime achievements in international law.

 

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