Oona A. Hathaway

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Oona A. Hathaway
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Born
Oona Anne Hathaway

1972 (age 5253)
Occupation(s)Legal scholar, author
TitleGerard 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)

Hathaway is a leading scholar in international law, national security law, and the constitutional allocation of war powers. Her work examines the intersection of domestic and international legal systems, with a focus on the law of armed conflict, treaty law, and executive authority. [15]

She is co-author, with Scott J. Shapiro, of The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (2017), which explores the legacy of the Kellogg–Briand Pact and its influence on modern prohibitions on the use of force. The book was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, included in The Economist's "Books of the Year," shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, and received the Scribes book award from the American Society of Legal Writers. It has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. [16]

Hathaway is also co-author, with Harold Koh, of Foundations of International Law and Politics (2004), and serves as a Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, published by the American Law Institute. [17]

She is a founding editor and Executive Editor of the national security law forum Just Security, where she regularly writes on issues including international humanitarian law, U.S. foreign relations law, and international institutional reform. [18] She also writes often for publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. [19]

From 2019 to 2023, Hathaway was listed among the top 5 most-cited legal scholars in the United States in the fields of international law, national security, and foreign affairs. [20] She was the only woman in the top 10 and the youngest person featured on the citation list. Additionally, she is among the top 10 most-cited legal scholars in any field born in 1970 or later.

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  14. Jacob S. Hacker; Paul Pierson (2011). Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, (Acknowledgements). Simon and Schuster.
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