Oona A. Hathaway

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Oona A. Hathaway
Born
Oona Anne Hathaway

1972 (age 51–52)
Jacob S. Hacker
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Yale University (JD)
Academic work
DisciplineLegal scholar
Sub-disciplineInternational law
InstitutionsYale Law School (2002–2008, 2009–present)
UC Berkeley School of Law (2008–2009)
Boston University School of Law (2000–2002)
Main interestsTreaties, international and constitutional law
Notable worksThe Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott J. Shapiro)
WebsiteYale Law School

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

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

Yale Law Journal.[3][4]

After graduation, Hathaway clerked for Justice

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.

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. 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. 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. SSRN 1009613
    – via Social Science Research Network.
  32. – 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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