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Catherine Powell is co-coordinator for the Campaign for a New Domestic Human Rights Agenda and an associate professor of law at Fordham Law School. She co-chairs the American Constitution Society's Working Group on International Law and the Constitution. Professor Powell is also on the Human Rights Watch board and chairs the Human Rights Watch/U.S. Program Advisory Committee.

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In Defense of Harold Koh: Nominee for State Department Legal Advisor

Posted April 10, 2009 | 23:29:32 (EST)

"When someone is truly great, that means you will not see their like again, there will not be anyone like them for three or five generations."
- Harold Koh

As I have discussed in a previous post, Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, President Obama's nominee for State...

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Dean Harold Koh: A Great Nomination for State Department Legal Advisor

Posted April 10, 2009 | 23:11:28 (EST)

"[T]he word greatness is greatly overused. It is hard to tell the difference between greatness and mere excellence, but you know it when you see it."
- Harold Koh

In this quote, Harold Koh, President Obama's nominee for State Department Legal Advisor, was speaking of another distinguished...

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