Steven Arrigg Koh

Steven Arrigg Koh (X) is Professor of Law and the R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law at Boston University School of Law and fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. He teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and procedure, foreign relations law, international law, constitutional law, and legal theory. Koh’s publications have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review. Previously, Koh served as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he advised U.S. federal and state prosecutors on international, criminal, and constitutional legal issues arising in U.S. criminal cases with transnational dimensions. Koh also practiced law in The Hague, Netherlands, first for the International Criminal Court and then for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Sociology at Yale University and is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B.), the University of Cambridge (M.Phil.), Yale University (M.Phil.), and Cornell Law School (J.D.), where he served as Senior Article Editor of the Cornell Law Review. Koh has also worked as a Senior Fellow at the American Society of International Law and clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before joining the Boston University School of Law faculty, Koh was the inaugural Marianne D. Short and Ray Skowyra Sesquicentennial Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School and a fellow at Columbia Law School.