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9 May 2013, 7:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
From Harold Koh’s speech to the Oxford Union the other day: the first “obvious” difference between the Bush and Obama administrations is that “the Obama Administration has not treated the post-9/11 conflict as a Global War on Terror to which no law applies, in which the United States is authorized to use force anywhere, against anyone. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 6:25 am
We applaud President Obama's decision yesterday to name Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, a longtime critic of the Bush administration's antiterror policies, to be the U.S. [read post]
8 May 2013, 2:55 pm by Benjamin Wittes
I was not aware that the Bush administration had been committed to confronting Al Qaeda and the Taliban “solely through tools of war. [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 7:05 am by Benjamin Wittes
Paul Starobin has a piece in the New York Times pondering the flip-flop of Harold Koh on war powers: During the Bush administration, he was legendary for his piercing criticisms of “executive muscle flexing” in the White House’s pursuit of the so-called war on terror. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 7:27 am
"I have the greatest respect for Harold Koh," Olson said. [read post]
7 Dec 2005, 8:39 am
[JURIST] British playwright Harold Pinter [official website], winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature [official website], has called for war crimes charges against US President Bush [official profile] and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile] in an acceptance speech to be shown Saturday at the award ceremony in Stockholm. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 4:37 am by Benjamin Wittes
I agree with Ken’s, Roger Alford’s, and Paul Rosenzweig’s defenses of Harold Koh, all three of which seem to me correct: Koh has an attorney-client relationship with the government that he did not have as an academic. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 8:06 am by Jack Goldsmith
  State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh described these differences in a speech last May: [L]et me note two important differences from the legal approach of the last Administration. [read post]
7 May 2013, 6:09 pm by Wells Bennett
Earlier today, former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh gave a talk at the Oxford Union, entitled “How to End the Forever War? [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 7:12 am by Kenneth Anderson
Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department, held an informal public discussion a couple of days ago with his predecessor from the Bush administration, John Bellinger. [read post]
9 May 2013, 10:12 am by Benjamin Wittes
Steve has responded to my post on Harold Koh’s sudden discovery of inviolable commander in chief powers. [read post]
9 May 2013, 9:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
From Harold Koh’s speech to the Oxford Union the other day: Suppose we are back at Sept 18, 2001, and Congress has just passed the AUMF against Al Qaeda. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 10:11 am by Kenneth Anderson
Koh, an unflinching critic of Bush administration anti-terrorism tactics during his years in academia, cited domestic and international law as foundations for the program. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 4:23 am
Senate Republicans are threatening to filibuster the appointments of Dawn Johnsen as OLC chief and Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel if President Obama releases three OLC memos from the Bush administration that likely contain additional details and legal... [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 5:12 pm by Benjamin Wittes
After then bringing Libya into the discussion, he goes on to quote Mary Ellen O’Connell posing a question that does not appear in any sense limited to the Libya war powers issues: “Where is the Harold Koh I worked with to ensure that international law, human rights and the Constitution were honored during the Bush years? [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 8:25 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) The University of Chicago’s Eric Posner argues in The New Republic that State Department legal adviser Harold Koh and former Office of Legal Counsel attorney John Yoo are “two peas in a pod. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 12:50 pm
But even these 3 were partisan and passionate against Bush and the Republicans. [read post]