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Harold Koh talked about the conflicts between President Trump’s foreign policy and international law.

Harold Hongju Koh delivered keynote remarks on international law, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism. Mr. Koh also criticized presidential candidates for suggesting the use of waterboarding and…

Senior diplomats spoke about the evolution of human rights policy at a day-long conference to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. They…

Panelists discussed war crimes tribunals, both past and present, and if the legal infrastructure the world’s leading democracies have struggled to establish since the Nuremberg trials of 1945-46 is…

Harold Koh testified that the War Powers Act of 1973 did not apply to U.S. involvement in Libya and that President Obama did not need congressional authority for continued support of the NATO mission…

Harold Koh and John Bellinger spoke about the Obama administration’s foreign policy goals and international law. Among the topics they addressed were the role of international legal…

On April 24, 1995 Justice Blackmun and Professor Koh talked about the justice’s work habits, Vietnam, the deaths of Justices Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan, the appointments to the…

On January 17, 1995, Justice Harry Blackmun talked about being named to the Supreme Court in 1970, his impressions of President Richard Nixon, who appointed him, and his confirmation hearings…

On Thursday, March 4, 2004, the Library of Congress unsealed the papers of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun on the fifth anniversary of his death. The collection included 38 hours of…

On June 2, 1995 Justice Blackmun and then-Professor Koh talked about the death penalty - which Justice Blackmun turned against toward the end of his tenure on the Court - an obscenity case,…

Yale Law School Professor Harold Koh talked about the legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. Dr. King would have celebrated his 66th birthday…

The panelists talked about the War Powers Act and the constitutional conflicts between the legislative and executive branches over the decision to use force. White House Counsel Lloyd…

Brandt Goldstein talked about his book Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won, published by Scribner. The book told the story of a team of Yale law students and other…

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the rights of detained enemy combatants in response to the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in favor of a detainee in…

The opening plenary session of the annual convention of the American Constitution Society was titled gSeparation of Powers: Restoring the Balance Among the Branches. h Panelists spoke about…

Following oral arguments for Rumsfeld v. FAIR, Mr. Rosenkranz, who represents the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), and other representatives of the law community spoke to…

Admiral Hutson, a former judge advocate general, and others testified against the nomination of Judge Alberto Gonzalez to be U.S. attorney general, criticizing his advice to President Bush…

Mr. Koh talked about the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be Attorney General. He opposes the nomination and is testifying at the confirmation hearing. He responded to telephone calls,…

Two hours from the first interview on September 9, 1994 is shown from “A Portion of His Oral History conducted with Justice Blackmun by Yale Professor Harold Koh.” In this segment Justice Blackmun…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on news of the day. Mr. Koh, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, spoke briefly about the release of Blackmun’s papers…