Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses, Tome 410 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004448971)

Harold Hongju Koh, born on 8 December 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Education: AB summa cum laude, Harvard University (1975); BA (Hons), First Class Honors, Oxford University (1977); MA, Oxford University (1997): JD cum laude, Harvard Law School (1980); MA (Hons), Yale University (1990); seventeen honorary doctorates (Quinnipiac Law School; University of Denver Sturm College of Law: American University School of Law; Wayne State University; Northeastern University: New School for Social Research; Iona College, Jewish Theological Seminary; University of Hartford, Widener School of Law; Skidmore College; Connecticut College; University of Connecticut; Dickinson College; Suffolk Law School; Albertus Magnus College; CUNY-Queens Law School).
Legal practice: Legal Adviser, United States Department of State (2009-2013); Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, United States Department of State (1998-2001); Attorney-Advisor, Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice (1983-1985); Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC (1982-1983); Law Clerk, Justice Harry A. Blackmun, United States Supreme Court (1981-1982); Law Clerk, Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey, United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (1980-1981).
Bars: New York (1981); District of Columbia (1981); Connecticut (1985).
Academic positions: Sterling Professor of International Law (2013-present), Dean (2004-2009), Martin R. Flug '55 Professor of International Law (on leave) (2009-2013), Yale Law School; Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School (1993-2009); Professor of Law, Yale Law School (1990-1993); Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School (1985-1990); George Eastman Visiting Professor of Law, Oxford University (2021-22); Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science, Cambridge University (2018-2019); Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2018-2021); Hague Academy of International Law (Summer 1993, Winter 2019); Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii Law School (2016); New York University (NYU) Law School, NYU Abu Dhabi (2015); Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Columbia Law School (2014); European University Institute (2014); Clarendon Law Lecturer, Oxford University (2014); Robert F. Drinan S. J. Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Georgetown Law School (2013); Oliver Smithies Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford University (2013); Visiting Professor of International Business and Trade Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (Winters 2000, 1990); Waynflete Lecturer, Magdalen College, Oxford University (1996); Oxford/George Washington University Joint Programme in International Human Rights Law (multiple times since 1996); Lecturer, Aspen Institute Seminar (regularly since 1994), NYU-Columbia Law Judges Colloquium (regularly since 2011); Federal Judicial Center; Professor, Salzburg Seminar in American Law and Legal Institutions (Summer 1991); Adjunct Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University National Law Center (1982-1985); named lecturer at more than thirty universities.

Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg (Germany), and a professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin and Basel (Switzerland), and a L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She has been a member (substitute) of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011-2014) and was a legal expert for the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (2009).
In 2020 she received a doctor honoris causa from the University of Lausanne. She was President of the European Society of International Law (2010-2012) and has served on the governance board of various learned societies such as the German Association of Constitutional Law (VDStRL) and the Society of International Constitutional Law (ICON-S). She is currently Vice-President of the Basel Institute of Governance (BIG), and Chairwoman of the German Association of International Law (DGIR).
Anne was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (2012-2013), and held visiting professorships at the universities of Beijing (Beida), Paris I, Paris II, Sciences Po, and Michigan. Born in Berlin in 1964, Anne studied at the universities of Würzburg, Lausanne, Freiburg and Harvard, and held the chair of public international law and Swiss constitutional law at the University of Basel from 2001 to 2013. She obtained the Habilitation qualification at the Walther Schücking Institute of Public International Law at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel on the basis of her thesis, "Elemente einer Theorie der Verfassung Europas" (Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe) in 2000.
Her current research interests relate to public international law including its history, global animal law, global governance and global constitutionalism, and the status of humans in international law. She has regularly taught international law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, the law of international organisations, EU law, comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, and Swiss constitutional law, and global animal law.