Rate My Professor Harold Koh

Koh’s distinguished academic background includes an A.B. in Government summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1975, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa member and Harvard National Scholar; a B.A. with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1977 as a Marshall Scholar; a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1980, during which he served as Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review; and an M.A. from Oxford University in 1996. A prolific scholar, he has authored or co-authored nine books, including The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair (Yale University Press, 1990; winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Award), Transnational Legal Problems (Foundation Press, 4th ed., 1994), and The Trump Administration and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2019), and has published more than 200 articles. Koh has testified regularly before Congress and litigated numerous international law cases in U.S. and international tribunals. His honors include the Louis B. Sohn Award for Lifetime Achievement in International Law (2005), fellowships in the American Philosophical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, membership on the Council of the American Law Institute, and 18 honorary degrees. He teaches courses such as Procedure, Public and Private International Law, Human Rights, Law and National Security, and International Business Transactions.