Many people are interested in Harold Koh’s nomination to be State Department legal advisor, but not all of those people have access to Lexis, Westlaw, or a good law library. Accordingly, here are links to two important articles by Koh:
On American Exceptionalism, 55 Stanford Law Review 1480 (2003). In this article, Koh examines various definitions of American “exceptionalism”, then provides his own, and proposes strategies to eliminate the inappropriate exceptionalism.
A World Drowning in Guns, 71 Fordham Law Review 2333 (2003). In this article, Koh lauds the international gun control effort, and criticizes John Bolton’s invocation of the Second Amendment at the 2001 UN small arms conference. VC citation counters will be pleased to see citations to an article by Randy Barnett and one by me.