October 7, 2009
Chairs have been conferred by the Yale Corporation on Harold Hongju Koh, Oona Hathaway ’97, and Jean Koh Peters.
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September 2, 2009
Former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh will receive the Yale Law School Association’s Award of Merit during Alumni Weekend 2009.
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June 25, 2009
Harold Hongju Koh sent a message to the Yale Law School community following his confirmation as Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.
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June 25, 2009
Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School since 2004, was confirmed as Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department on June 25, 2009.
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May 25, 2009
229 members of the Yale Law School Class of 2009 were honored at Memorial Day commencement ceremonies on May 25.
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May 20, 2009
YLS Dean Harold Hongju Koh is the 2009 recipient of the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Service to the Profession Award.
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April 2, 2009
Read a sampling of articles and letters related to Dean Koh’s nomination to the Obama administration.
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March 23, 2009
I wanted you to know that today, President Obama is announcing his intent to nominate me as The Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State.
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March 23, 2009
President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate Dean Harold Hongju Koh to be The Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State.
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March 23, 2009
To permit Dean Koh to focus on preparation for his important new responsibility, after consultation with a number of senior members of the faculty, I have asked Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, to begin serving immediately as Acting Dean of Yale Law School.
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November 17, 2008
Yale Law School Professor Jay Katz died Monday, November 17, 2008, in New Haven. Katz was the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry and Harvey L. Karp Professorial Lecturer in Law and Psychoanalysis at Yale Law School.
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August 16, 2007
Dean Koh discussed restoring America's international standing at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention on July 27, 2007.
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August 6, 2007
The following op-ed appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of the
Yale Law Report as part of a collection of op-eds written by Yale Law School faculty members.
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May 3, 2007
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh is one of six new members elected to the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association.
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March 29, 2007
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh testified March 29 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the subject of human rights practices.
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March 19, 2007
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh will travel to Mexico with Yale University colleagues for “Yale Week in Mexico” March 20 to March 23.
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March 8, 2007
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh has issued a statement to the Yale Law School community on the subject of malicious website postings.
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February 28, 2007
Yale Law Women will introduce a new online community for women in the legal profession at a conference March 31 at Yale Law School titled “Legally Female: What Does It Mean to Be Ms. JD?”
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February 5, 2007
The Green Bag journal has selected works by a number of members of the Yale Law School community as "exemplars of good legal writing" for 2006.
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February 5, 2007
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh was one of three people delivering eulogies for the Rev. Robert F. Drinan at Rev. Drinan’s funeral service on Feb. 3, 2007.
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January 16, 2007
More than 130 U.S. law school deans have released a statement in response to remarks by Charles “Cully” Stimson about lawyers for detainees.
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December 13, 2006
Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh was one of 29 constitutional law professors from around the U.S. who filed an amicus brief December 12 in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
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October 3, 2006
Members of the Yale Law School community have organized panels to discuss "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" on Thursday, October 5 and Friday, October 6.
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September 27, 2006
In a letter to U.S. Senators and Members of Congress today, a group of more than seventy law school deans and professors from across the country express concern about the Military Commissions Act and the National Security Surveillance Act.
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August 30, 2006
Dean Koh spoke of the Law School as a "community of commitment" and urged new students to use their time at YLS to find new ideas, combine theory and practice, and discover what they stand for.
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July 11, 2006
Dean Koh testified on July 11 before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on "
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process."
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July 7, 2006
Dean Koh’s advocacy work will be recognized at an awards ceremony sponsored by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center on July 21.
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June 30, 2006
More than twenty students and several faculty members from Yale Law School have assisted Neal Katyal ’95 with
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
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June 16, 2006
Dean Harold Hongju Koh delivered remarks on law and globalization at The American Law Institute's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2006.
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