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Watch the interview with Harold Hongju Koh on American Schools of International Law
American Schools of International Law, by H. H. KOH, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Is there still one international law and does the United States of America really believe in it? This lecture inaugurating the Hague Academy’s first Winter Session, by an American scholar who served as US State Department Legal Adviser, argues that Americans do believe in international law as part of their nation’s founding credo. Although recent US administrations have challenged 21st century international law, most American lawyers and legal scholars remain committed to the rule of international law. This dominant strand of international thinking among American academics and practitioners inhabits a school with strong historical roots known as the “’New’ New Haven School of International Law.” While some American schools of international legal thought diminish international law, they remain the exception. The “New” New Haven School argues, both positively and normatively, that rules of transnational legal process and substance must ensure that international law still matters. As America and the world together face such 21st Century globalization challenges as climate change, pandemic, and migration, this dominant American school remains determined to ensure that the United States will pay decent respect to international law.
Animals in International Law, by A. PETERS, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg.
The plight of animal individuals and species inflicted on them by human activity is a global problem with detrimental repercussions for all humans and for the entire planet. The book gives an overview of the most important international legal regimes which directly address animals and which indirectly affect them. It covers species conservation treaties, notably the international whaling regime, the farm animal protection rules of the EU, international trade law, and the international law of armed conflict. It also analyses the potential of international fundamental rights for animals. Finding that international law creates more harm than good for animals, the book suggests progressive treaty interpretation, treaty-making, and animal interest representation for closing the animal welfare gap in international law. A body of global animal law needs to be developed, accompanied by critical global animal studies.
American Schools of International Law, by H. H. KOH, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Is there still one international law and does the United States of America really believe in it? This lecture inaugurating the Hague Academy’s first Winter Session, by an American scholar who served as US State Department Legal Adviser, argues that Americans do believe in international law as part of their nation’s founding credo. Although recent US administrations have challenged 21st century international law, most American lawyers and legal scholars remain committed to the rule of international law. This dominant strand of international thinking among American academics and practitioners inhabits a school with strong historical roots known as the “’New’ New Haven School of International Law.” While some American schools of international legal thought diminish international law, they remain the exception. The “New” New Haven School argues, both positively and normatively, that rules of transnational legal process and substance must ensure that international law still matters. As America and the world together face such 21st Century globalization challenges as climate change, pandemic, and migration, this dominant American school remains determined to ensure that the United States will pay decent respect to international law.
Animals in International Law, by A. PETERS, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg.
The plight of animal individuals and species inflicted on them by human activity is a global problem with detrimental repercussions for all humans and for the entire planet. The book gives an overview of the most important international legal regimes which directly address animals and which indirectly affect them. It covers species conservation treaties, notably the international whaling regime, the farm animal protection rules of the EU, international trade law, and the international law of armed conflict. It also analyses the potential of international fundamental rights for animals. Finding that international law creates more harm than good for animals, the book suggests progressive treaty interpretation, treaty-making, and animal interest representation for closing the animal welfare gap in international law. A body of global animal law needs to be developed, accompanied by critical global animal studies.
Price: $199.00
Pages: 410
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Series: Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law - Recueil des cours
Publication Date:
11 December 2020
ISBN: 9789004448971
Format: Hardcover
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.
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.