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Koh, Harold Hongju was born on December 8, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Kwang Lim and Hesung (Chun) Koh.
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The Fifth Edition Transnational Business Problems combines the best aspects of a conceptual, systemic approach and a problems approach. It provides a sophisticated intellectual framework for understanding the most significant contractual and regulatory issues in international business. At fewer than 700 pages, this compact book is ideal for a one-semester course. • One volume. Transnational Business Problems presents the important practical and policy aspects of international transactions in one reasonably-sized volume. • Deals with Systemic Issues First. Transnational Business Problems considers systemic issues first. Five introductory chapters discuss the structure of the international system, the different players in international business―corporations, lawyers, international institutions―and issues that reach across all kinds of transactions such as dispute resolution and tax. • Problems Approach. The introductory chapters are followed by eight problems, each focused on a different kind of transaction: transnational sales, agency and distributorship agreements, licensing, foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, development agreements, and international debt instruments. Each problem covers both contractual and regulatory issues. Nearly all begin with a sample contract. • Sophistication. The book uses primary source materials―draft contracts, statutes, regulations, treaties, cases, and arbitral awards―that allow students, with help from the text, to work through issues in a realistic way. It goes beyond the nuts and bolts of transactions to encourage consideration of broader policy issues: from the liability of corporations for human rights violations to restrictions on foreign investment; from the compulsory licensing of HIV drugs to the restructuring of sovereign debt. • Geographical Diversity. Transnational Business Problems reflects the geographical diversity of business today. The problems focus on China, the European Union, South America, Mexico, and the Middle East. Materials from other parts of the world are included in the introductory chapters. • Intellectual Heritage. Transnational Business Problems grows out of a rich intellectual heritage that began with Milton Katz and Kingman Brewster’s International Transactions and evolved into Henry Steiner and Detlev Vagts’s Transnational Legal Problems. This book views transnational business problems as a particular species of transnational legal problem that both generates and is influenced by transnational legal process. • Fully Updated. The Fifth Edition of Transnational Business Problems is fully updated to account for developments through the start of 2014. Every year between editions the authors provide an update in memo form that teachers can distribute as a supplement to their classes. • Useful Teacher’s Manual. Transnational Business Problems has a complete teacher’s manual that provides suggestions on how to approach the material and answers to all of the questions posed in the text. The manual also contains sample syllabi.
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Steiner, Vagts and Koh's Documentary Supplement to Transnational Legal Problems, Materials and Text, Fourth Edition, provides detailed information on transnational legal problems law. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series; , it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.
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The Fourth Edition Transnational Business Problems combines the best aspects of a conceptual, systemic approach and a problems approach. It provides a sophisticated intellectual framework for understanding the most significant contractual and regulatory issues in international business. At 648 pages this compact book is ideal for a one-semester course.
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In this important collection of writings, leading legal and political thinkers address a wide array of issues that confront societies undergoing a transition to democratic rule. Bridging the gap between theory and practice in international human rights law and policy, the contributors continue discussions that were begun with the late Argentine philosopher-lawyer Carlos Santiago Nino, then extend those conversations in new directions inspired by their own and Nino's work. The book focuses on some of the key questions that confront the international human rights movement today. What is the moral justification for the concept and content of universal human rights? What is the relationship among nation-building, constitutionalism, and democracy? What are the political implications for a conception of universal human rights? What is the relationship between moral principles and political practice? How should a society confront what Kant called radical evil? And how does a successor regime justly and practically hold a prior regime accountable for gross violations of human rights?
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Was the Iran-Contra affair caused by executive lawlessness or legislative folly? Or did it result instead from structural defects in our national security decision-making system? In this important new book, Harold Koh argues that the affair was not aberrational but symptomatic of a chronic dysfunction in America’s foreign policy process. Combining practical knowledge of government with insights from law, history, and political science, Koh presents the definitive historical and constitutional analysis of the Iran-Contra affair, the subsequent investigations, and the trial of Oliver North. He then discusses the implications of the Iran-Contra scandal for the constitutional conduct of national security policy and offers prescriptions to improve this decision-making system. Koh contends that the Iran-Contra affair arose not from Watergate, as many have claimed, but from Vietnam, for it was only the latest episode in a series of foreign policy decisions made by unrestrained executive discretion. Koh shows that throughout its history America has operated under a ‘National Security Constitution,’ a constitutionally defined national security process that views that administration of foreign affairs as a power shared by the president, Congress, and the courts. Yet the executive branch has increased its role in making foreign policy at the expense of the other branches, placing in jeopardy this vision of constitutional balance. Koh advocates a national security charter to reform the foreign policy-making process and offers innovative proposals about war powers, international agreements, emergency economic powers, intelligence oversight, and information control. His proposals would restrain the executive and restore and reinvigorate the constitutional roles of Congress and the federal judiciary in national security decision-making. This challenging book forces government decision-makers, scholars, and concerned citizens to reexamine the process by which the United States will conduct its foreign affairs into the next century.
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Koh, Harold Hongju was born on December 8, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Kwang Lim and Hesung (Chun) Koh.
Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, 1975. Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1980. Bachelor, Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1977.
Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1990. LLH (honorary), CUNY-Queens Law School, 1998. LLH (honorary), Suffolk Law School, 1999.
LLH (honorary), University Connecticut, 2000. LLH (honorary), Connecticut College, 2001. LLH (honorary), Skidmore College, 2002.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Albertus Magnus College, 1999. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Dickinson College, 2000.
Law clerk to Honorary Malcolm Richard Wilkey United States Court Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit), Washington, 1980-1981. Law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun United States Supreme Court, 1981-1982. Associate Covington & Burling LLP, 1982-1983.
Attorney-advisor Office Legal Counsel United States Department Justice, 1983-1985. Associate professor law Yale Law School, New Haven, 1985-1990, professor, 1990-1993, director Orville H. Schell Junior, Center International Human Rights, 1993—1998, Gerald C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor international law, 1993—2009, dean, 2004—2009. Legal advisor United States Department State, Washington, since 2009.
Adjunct assistan professorial lecturer law George Washington University National Law Center, 1982—1985. Visiting professor international law University Toronto, 1990, 2002. Visiting professor Hague Academy International Law, 1993.
Visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford University, 1996—1997. Waynflete Lecturer Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1996—1997. Assistant secretary state for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor United States Department State.
Commissioner Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe. United States delegate United Nations General Assembly (Third Committee), United Nations Human Rights Commission, Organization American States, Council Europe, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, United Nations Committee Against Torture, 1998—2001, Inaugural Community of Democracies Meeting, Warsaw, 2000, United Nations Conference on New and Restored Democracies, Cotonou, Benin, 2000.
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(Steiner, Vagts and Koh's Documentary Supplement to Transn...)
(Steiner, Vagts and Koh's Documentary Supplement to Transn...)
(In this important collection of writings, leading legal a...)
(The Fourth Edition Transnational Business Problems combin...)
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Board directors Human Rights Watch, Arms Control Association. Fellow: American Academy Arts and Scis. Member: American Society International Law., American Law Institute, Twentieth Century Fund.
Married Mary-Christy Fisher, February 19, 1984. Children: Emily J.Y., William Heriot-Watt University.