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Oona Anne Hathaway (born 1972) is an American professor and lawyer. She is the founder and director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School. She is also a professor of international and area studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and a faculty member at the Jackson School of Global Affairs.[1]

Biography

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.[2]

She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1994 and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where in 1997 she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.[3][4]

After graduation, Hathaway clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1998 Term, and for D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald. Following her clerkships, Hathaway held fellowships at Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Center for the Ethics and the Professions.[5][6] She was an associate professor at Boston University School of Law and served as Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law.[7][8][9] She is currently the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, counselor to the dean at Yale Law School Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science, Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges, and an Executive Editor at Just Security.[10][11]

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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16] She has published widely and been quoted in the media as an expert on treaties and constitutional law.[17][18][19][20][21] In 2014–15, she served 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. Her book with Scott J. Shapiro, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2017 and was launched at an event organized in Washington, D.C., by New America and moderated by its vice president, Peter Bergen.[22] The Internationalists received wide acclaim by The New Yorker,[23] The Financial Times,[24] and The Economist,[25] among others.

Personal life

Hathaway is married to Jacob S. Hacker, professor of political science at Yale University. They have two children.[26]

Bibliography

Articles

  • Hathaway, Oona (2021). "National Security Lawyering in the Post-War Era: Can Law Constrain Power?". UCLA Law Review. 68 – via Social Science Research Network.[27]
  • Hathaway, Oona; Strauch, Paul; Walton, Beatrice; Weinberg, Zoe (2019). "What is a War Crime". The Yale Journal of International Law. 44: 54–113 – via digitalcommons.law.yale.edu.[28]
  • Hathaway, Oona; Chertoff, Emily; Domínguez, Lara; Manfredi, Zachary; Tzeng, Peter (2017). "Ensuring Responsibility: Common Article 1 and State Responsibility for Non-State Actors" (PDF). Texas Law Review. 95: 540–590 – via Texas Law Review.[29]
  • Hathaway, Oona; Brower, Julia; Liss, Ryan; Thomas, Tina; Victor, Jacob (2014). "Consent-Based Humanitarian Intervention: Giving Sovereign Responsibility Back to the Sovereign". Cornell International Law Journal. 46: 499–568 – via digitalcommons.law.yale.edu.[30]
  • Hathaway, Oona (August 2007). "Why Do Countries Commit to Human Rights Treaties?". Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 356 – via Social Science Research Network.[31]
  • Hathaway, Oona (2005). "Between Power and Principle: An Integrated Theory of International Law". University of Chicago Law Review. 71 – via Social Science Research Network.[32]

Books

  • Hathaway, Oona A. & Harold Hongju Koh (2005). Foundations of international law and politics. New York: Foundation Press.
  • Hathaway, Oona A. & Scott J. Shapiro (2017). The internationalists : how a radical plan to outlaw war remade the world. New York: Simon & Schuster.[33]
    • Published in the UK as Hathaway, Oona & Scott Shapiro (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. Allen Lane.

Critical response

  • Hull, Isabel (April 26, 2018). "Anything can be rescinded". London Review of Books. 40 (8): 25–26.
  • Menand, Louis (September 11, 2017). "What Happens When War Is Outlawed"[1]. The New Yorker.[34]
  • Aldous, Richard (September 25, 2017). "Gentlemen, Let's Not Fight". The Wall Street Journal.[35]
  • Shermer, Michael (December 1, 2017). "Can We Agree to Outlaw War—Again?". Scientific American.[36]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hathaway, Oona (June 2021). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Yale Law School.
  2. ^ Finnemore, Melody. "Oregon State Bar Bulletin June 2008 – Planting the Seeds: An Early Interest in the Law Takes Root in Classroom Law Project's Programs". Oregon State Bar.
  3. ^ "Faculty Page for Oona A. Hathaway". Yale Law School. 20 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Volume 106 Masthead: The Yale Law Journal Vol. 106, No. 1, October 1996". The Yale Law Journal.
  5. ^ "Faculty Page". Yale Law School. 20 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics". Harvard University.
  7. ^ "Faculty Page". Yale Law School. 20 February 2024.
  8. ^ Tam, Derek (April 8, 2009). "In Stith, Law School gets 'real world' leader". Yale Daily News. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  9. ^ "Yale hosting panel discussion on drones Saturday". San Francisco Gate. April 25, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  10. ^ "Oona A. Hathaway – Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  11. ^ "Just Security - Oona Hathaway".
  12. ^ Leiter, Brian. "Top Ten Law Faculty (by area) in Scholarly Impact, 2009–2013". Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings.
  13. ^ "Brian Leiter's Law School Reports". leiterlawschool.typepad.com. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  14. ^ Leiter, Brian. "20 Most-Cited International Law & Security Scholars in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017". Brian Leiter's Law School Reports.
  15. ^ Leiter, Brian. "20 Most-Cited International Law & Security Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020". Brian Leiter's Law School Reports.
  16. ^ Shapiro, Fred. "The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited". University of Chicago Law Review.
  17. ^ Savage, Charlie (January 25, 2008). "Bush plan for Iraq would be a first". Boston.com. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  18. ^ Paul, Jenny (November 20, 2008). "US-Iraq security pact may be in violation, Congress is told". Boston.com. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  19. ^ Hathaway, Oona; Delahunt, Bill (November 26, 2008). "Opinion: Bush should include Congress". Boston Globe - Boston.com. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  20. ^ Hathaway, Oona A.; Goldsmith, Jack (December 27, 2015). "Restraining government workers' speech". San Francisco Gate. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  21. ^ Hathaway, Oona A.; Ackerman, Bruce (March 9, 2011). "Blog: It's Not Up to the President to Impose a No-Fly Zone Over Libya". Huffington Post. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  22. ^ "The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World". NewAmerica.org. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  23. ^ Menand, Louis (2017-09-11). "What Happens When War Is Outlawed". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  24. ^ MacMillan, Margaret (September 1, 2017). "Law and Peace: The Internationalists by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro" (PDF). The Internationalists. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  25. ^ "The liberal order of the past 70 years is under threat". The Economist. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  26. ^ 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.
  27. ^ Hathaway, Oona (January 6, 2021). "National Security Lawyering in the Post-War Era: Can Law Constrain Power?". UCLA Law Review. 68. SSRN 3530588 – via Social Science Research Network.
  28. ^ Hathaway, Oona; Strauch, Paul; Walton, Beatrice; Weinberg, Zoe (2019). "What is a War Crime". The Yale Journal of International Law. 44: 54–113.
  29. ^ Hathaway, Oona; Chertoff, Emily; Domínguez, Lara; Manfredi, Zachary; Tzeng, Peter (2017). "Ensuring Responsibility: Common Article 1 and State Responsibility for Non-State Actors" (PDF). Texas Law Review. 95: 540–590.
  30. ^ Hathaway, Oona; Brower, Julia; Liss, Ryan; Thomas, Tina; Victor, Jacob (2014). "Consent-Based Humanitarian Intervention: Giving Sovereign Responsibility Back to the Sovereign". Cornell International Law Journal. 46: 499–568 – via digitalcommons.law.yale.edu.
  31. ^ Hathaway, Oona (August 2007). "Why Do Countries Commit to Human Rights Treaties?". Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 356. SSRN 1009613 – via Social Science Research Network.
  32. ^ Hathaway, Oona (2005). "Between Power and Principle: An Integrated Theory of International Law". University of Chicago Law Review. 71. SSRN 655221 – via Social Science Research Network.
  33. ^ Hathaway, Oona; Shapiro, Scott. "The Internationalists".
  34. ^ Menand, Louis (September 11, 2017). "What Happens When War Is Outlawed". The New Yorker.
  35. ^ Aldous, Richard (September 25, 2017). "Gentlemen, Let's Not Fight". The Wall Street Journal.
  36. ^ Shermer, Michael (December 1, 2017). "Can We Agree to Outlaw War—Again?". Scientific American.


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