ASIL is pleased to announce that its Counsellor Harold H. Koh, Dean of the Yale Law School, was confirmed on Thursday, June 25th, 2009, by the US Senate for the position of Legal Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was sworn in on Friday, June 26.

A Selection of Statements and Writings for ASIL by Harold Koh

• Audio: The Public/Private Distinction in International Law: Have We Finally Killed It?, ASIL 101st Annual Meeting, March 29, 2007
• Why Obey International Law?: The Value of Process, International Legal Theory, Vol. 11, p 27, 2005
• Agora: The United States Constitution and International Law: International Law as Part of Our Law, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 98 No. 1, January 2004
• Why Obey International Law? Theories for Managing Conflicts With Municipal Law, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Vol. 97, p 111, 2003
• The Case Against Military Commissions, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 96, No. 2, p 337, April 2002
• "Vertical" Conflicts Between International and National Tribunals: Paying Decent Respect to International Tribunal Rulings, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Vol. 96, p 45, 2002
• Contemporary Conceptions of Customary International Law, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Vol. 92, p 37, 1998