Oona A. Hathaway

Oona Anne Hathaway (born 1972) is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School,^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] She is the Director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  She is also Executive Editor of and regular author at Just Security, and she writes often for popular publications such as The Washington Post, New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. She is one of the most highly cited international law scholars in the United States, and she regularly appears as a public commentator on issues of international law, national security law, foreign relations law, and constitutional law.