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In 2009 named President Barack Obama Harold Koh serve as a legal adviser of the U.S. State Department. Confirmed candidate, despite the protests of rumors that Koh Sharia supported in the United States. HistoryHarold Koh held advisory positions in the Reagan and Clinton administrations after graduating with a degree in law from Harvard University and a master's degree at the University of Oxford. He joined the Faculty at the Yale Law School in 1995 and was Dean of the school of 2004.ControversyIn law 2007, Koh gave a speech in Yale Club in Greenwich, Connecticut. Lawyer named Steven stone claimed that Koh has declared that "if necessary, he saw no reason why Sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States" to present. This claim was others refuted, in attendance.Expert InsightRobert (ALT), Deputy Director which legal systems and the administration of justice studies at the Heritage Foundation, said: "Harold Koh has a reputation as the leader on the case-law of the scholar TRANS-nationalist." This legal view is to preserve the sovereignty of the United States unloved conservatives and probably increased the weight of the rumor. "Especially under the Conservatives," said ALT, "School of thought is worrying insofar as this seems to suggest, transnational law constitutional rights and what can be a threat to the sovereignty of the United States bears." "