Oona A. Hathaway

Oona Anne Hathaway (born 1972) is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and both 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 Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Faculty at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; and Professor (by courtesy) at the Department of Political Science.[1] She was one of the ten most cited international law scholars from 2009 to 2013.[2] 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.

Early life

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.[3]

Education

She received her B.A. with 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.[4][5]

Early career

Hathaway clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and for D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald, and held fellowships at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Center for the Ethics and the Professions.[6][7] She was an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law and Yale Law School, and served as Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley.[8]

Personal life

Hathaway is married to Jacob S. Hacker, Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. They have two children.[9]

Works

Academic publications

Other articles

References

  1. Hathaway, Oona. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Yale Law School.
  2. Leiter, Brian. "Top Ten Law Faculty (by area) in Scholarly Impact, 2009-2013". Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings.
  3. 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.
  4. "Faculty Page for Oona A. Hathaway". Yale Law School.
  5. "Volume 106 Masthead: The Yale Law Journal Vol. 106, No. 1, October 1996". The Yale Law Journal.
  6. "Faculty Page". Yale Law School.
  7. "Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics". Harvard University.
  8. "Faculty Page". Yale Law School.
  9. 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.
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