Yale Law School

Even though Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh hasn’t yet been confirmed as State Department legal adviser, his current employer is apparently pretty confident that he will be.
Bloomberg reports that Yale University yesterday named Robert C. Post — an expert in constitutional law who’s been teaching at Yale since 2003 — as the law [...]

Late on Friday, after some of us had long since packed up our computers, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco ruled that Jose Padilla, the American citizen declared an “enemy combatant” by President George W. Bush and incarcerated at a U.S. Naval brig in South Carolina, may proceed with his lawsuit against University [...]

Conservatives are preemptively building a case against a potential Obama Supreme Court nominee.

Senate Republicans are pressuring President Obama into not releasing the controversial torture memos we’ve all been waiting for (and which the administration again refused to release last week) by threatening to block confirmation of two key Obama Justice Department nominees, Scott Horton reports in The Daily Beast today.
The appointments of Dawn Johnsen, nominated to head [...]

It should come as no surprise that President Obama’s nomination of the widely respected human rights expert and dean of the Yale Law School, Harold Hongju Koh, to be the State Department’s legal adviser has gotten conservatives to call out their attack dogs, as FOX News reports.
Koh, as Spencer has written, is a former Clinton [...]