About the CST

Steven Arrigg Koh

Steven Arrigg Koh is Professor of Law and R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law at Boston University and a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Yale University. His interdisciplinary scholarship in criminal, constitutional, and international law engages strong program cultural sociology to analyze how legal institutions symbolically sustain democratic legitimacy. A fellow at Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology, Koh draws on his experience as a former U.S. federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice and lawyer at Hague international criminal tribunals to examine the cultural dimensions of legal authority, civil repair, and transnational justice. He has held academic appointments at Boston College Law School, Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and Seoul National University School of Law.