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BIO

Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, Professor of Political Science at the Yale University Department of Political Science, Faculty at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She is president-elect of the American Society of International Law and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State since 2005, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2011, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2025. In 2014-15, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the US Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. She has published more than fifty law review articles, and The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott Shapiro, 2017). She is a founding Executive Editor of and regular author at Just Security, and she writes often for publications such as The Washington Post, New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. In 2025-2026, she is working on a book, War Unbound, with the support of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin and the Guggenheim Fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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