Rebecca Ingber serves as Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and holds dual leadership roles as Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy and Senior Fellow at NYU School of Law's Reiss Center on Law and Security. Her institutional affiliations extend to high-level governmental roles including U.S. Substitute Member to the Council of Europe's Venice Commission, Advisory Committee member to the U.S. Department of State's Office of the Legal Adviser, and U.S. representative to the OSCE Moscow Mechanism roster of experts. Her academic foundation includes a BA from Yale University and JD from Harvard Law School, complemented by a clerkship with Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. These credentials underpin her expertise in constitutional and international legal frameworks. Professor Ingber's research centers on the critical intersection of international law, national security, and constitutional separation of powers, with particular focus on executive war powers, bureaucratic resistance mechanisms, and the erosion of international legal norms. Her work consistently examines how domestic institutions interact with international legal constraints, especially regarding military actions, treaty compliance, and accountability mechanisms. Recent scholarship demonstrates increasing urgency in analyzing challenges to the rules-based international order. Analysis of her 2020-2025 publications reveals dominant themes in war powers legitimacy, state responses to international criminal jurisdiction, and the systemic weakening of legal constraints on executive action. Her scholarship uniquely bridges theoretical legal analysis with immediate real-world applications, frequently addressing contemporaneous events like the Soleimani strike, ICC arrest warrants, and torture prohibitions through rigorous doctrinal examination. Her scientific recognition includes: Dean’s Award for Scholarship from BU Law Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship (2017) for 'Co-Belligerency' Professor Ingber maintains significant policy influence through congressional testimony on war powers and executive authority, while her scholarly impact extends through editorial leadership at Just Security and contributions to Lawfare . Her advisory roles in The American Law Institute and the ALI’s Foreign Relations Law Restatement demonstrate sustained contribution to legal doctrine development, though specific grant funding details remain undisclosed in source materials. She actively shapes discourse through the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, which examines democratic governance challenges, and the Reiss Center on Law and Security, where she contributes to interdisciplinary national security research initiatives addressing evolving threats to legal frameworks.
