Oona A. Hathaway
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, 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. 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. She is the Director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.