Koh tapped for State Department
President Barack Obama tapped Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh for the top legal post at the State Department on Monday.
If he is confirmed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Koh will resign his deanship and take a public service leave from the Law School. As legal adviser to the State Department, Koh would serve as principal counselor on all legal matters to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. Law School professor Kate Stith will serve as acting dean, effective immediately, until a successor is appointed, University President Richard Levin announced in a...
The upside of Koh's appoitment: under the new Dean, maybe Yale Law will now finally be able to hire a conservative faculty member for the first time since Robert Bork taught on the faculty.
Right, we need more good examples like Bork.
Recent Alum do you believe in the Easter Bunny as well?
Oh hi there RecentAlum! So great to see you!
Oops, just kidding. You didn't even go to Yale; you are just an internet troll.
The upside is the Yale is well rid of a dean who was hurting the reputation of the Law School - and it didn't have to face up to the unpleasant fact that it made a mistake hiring him in the first place.
He has been a good Dean. Dean Koh gets it.