Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh (Korean 고홍주; born December 8, 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American legal scholar.
Life
His parents, legal scholar and diplomat Kwang Lim Koh and sociologist Hesung Chun Koh, emigrated from Korea to the United States. There they teach at Yale University as a university teacher.
After leaving school, Koh studied law at the Hopkins School in New Haven and then at Harvard. After studying Koh received in 1985 a position as professor at Yale Law School. From 2004 to 2009 Koh worked there as a dean; he came here over from Anthony T. Kronman.
In the meantime he was from November 1998 to January 2001 as Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor ( Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ) in the service of the U.S. State Department. Since 25 June 2009, he is a legal advisor (Legal Adviser ) re- employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Koh is married to the U.S. citizen Mary- Christy Fisher and has two children with her.