After studying at Harvard College, Oxford and Harvard Law School, Koh worked as a law clerk and practiced at the Covington and Burling law firm and the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He then returned to New Haven and joined the faculty of Yale Law School in 1985.
Though Koh works for Harvard’s biggest rival, he notes that many of his extended family members are closely tied to the University.
Two of his nephews, Steven A. Koh ’04 and Dan A. Koh ’07, are undergraduates at the College.
And his brother, Howard K. Koh—who was an undergraduate and medical school student at Yale—is the associate dean of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health.
With his family’s loyalties split, Harold Koh said he is reluctant to pick sides in this year’s Harvard-Yale Game, which will take place in New Haven on Nov. 22.