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Oona Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, with joint appointments in Political Science and the Jackson Institute for International Affairs. Her roles include serving as Counselor to the Dean of Yale Law School and member of strategic committees at the American Society of International Law and U.S. Department of State. She holds law and political science faculty positions across Yale University’s MacMillan Center and other institutes.
Education: B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University (1994), J.D. from Yale Law School (1997, Editor-in-Chief of Yale Law Journal). Clerkships with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Judge Patricia Wald. Former positions include Professor roles at UC Berkeley Law and Boston University School of Law.
Research focuses on foundational international law, U.S. constitutional constraints on warfare, enforcement mechanisms, cyber conflict, and armed conflict law. Notable projects include Hewlett Foundation-funded cyber conflict studies and co-authoring The Internationalists, examining 20th-century war outlawry movements. Recent scholarship addresses Ukraine-Russia conflict legal dimensions, UN reform possibilities, and congressional war powers revitalization.
Key contributions include empirical studies on international law’s effectiveness, critiques of executive secrecy in foreign agreements, and advocacy for transparency reforms. Her work bridges theoretical legal analysis with policy-oriented solutions, emphasizing institutional mechanisms to strengthen compliance.
