Oona A. Hathaway ’97 JD, P ’23, P ’26

Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, professor of international law and area studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, professor of political science, and director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges.

Hathaway has been a member of the advisory committee on international law for the legal adviser at the US Department of State since 2005. From 2014 to 2015, she took a 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 is the director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published more than forty law review articles and a book with Scott Shapiro, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World. She is executive editor and regular author at Just Security, and she writes often for popular publications such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs.