Oona A. Hathaway | |
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Born | Oona Anne Hathaway 1972 (age 52–53) Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Legal scholar, author |
Title | Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School |
Spouse | Jacob S. Hacker |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Legal scholar |
Sub-discipline | International law |
Institutions | Yale Law School (2002–2008,2009–present) UC Berkeley School of Law (2008–2009) Boston University School of Law (2000–2002) |
Main interests | Treaties,international and constitutional law |
Notable works | The Internationalists:How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott J. Shapiro) |
Website | Yale Law School |
Oona Anne Hathaway (born 1972) is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, [1] Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science,Professor at the Jackson School of Global Affairs,and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. [2] She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005. In 2014-15,she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense,where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. [3] She is the Director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hathaway was born and raised in Portland,Oregon. While in high school,she participated in the We the People and Mock Trial programs as a student at Lincoln High School,where she was also student body president. [4]
She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1994;She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a John Harvard Scholar,and on the Dean’s List. Furthermore,at Harvard,she received the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize,the Gerda Richards Crosby Prize,and the Elizabeth Agaziz Award. Hathaway received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997,where she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, [5] [6] the managing/articles editor of the Yale Journal of International Law,and participant in the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic.
After law school graduation,Hathaway clerked for D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald and,during the 1998 Term,Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Following her clerkships,Hathaway held fellowships at Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Center for the Ethics and the Professions. [7] [8] She was an associate professor at Boston University School of Law and served as Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. [9] [10] [11] In 2014–15,Hathaway took leave from teaching at Yale Law School to serve as the Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense,a position for which she received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence.
Hathaway is currently the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law,Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science,Professor at the Jackson School of Global Affairs,and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges,an Executive Editor at Just Security,and a nonresident scholar in the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. [12] [13]
From 2009 to 2013,2010 to 2014,2013 to 2017,and 2016 to 2020,the last period in which a study was done,Hathaway was one of the ten most cited international law scholars. [14] [15] [16] [17] She was both the only woman in the top 10 and also youngest person on both lists. She is also among the top 10 most cited legal scholars in any field born in 1970 or after. [18] Her book with Scott J. Shapiro,The Internationalists:How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World,received wide acclaim by The New Yorker, [19] The Financial Times, [20] and The Economist, [21] among others. She has published widely and been quoted in the media as an expert on international law,national security law,the law of war,foreign relations law,and constitutional law. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] Recently,she has been a prominent commentator on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Hathaway is married to Jacob S. Hacker,professor of political science at Yale University. They have two children. [27]
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