International Law under Challenge in the Age of Trump
Event date
13 May 2019
Event time
17:00
Oxford week
Venue
Manor Road Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s)
Professor Harold Koh
Professor Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale University and former Legal Advisor at the US State Department, will speak on 13 May at 5pm at the Manor Road Lecture Theatre on the topic of “International Law under Challenge in the Age of Trump”.
Harold Hongju Koh, a graduate of Oxford and Harvard, is a lawyer and legal scholar. He served as the Legal Advisor of the US Department of State in the Obama administration, having served earlier as the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor in the Clinton administration. He departed the State Department in January 2013 and returned to Yale University as Sterling Professor of International Law.