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Oona A. Hathaway

Executive Editor

Oona A. Hathaway (BlueskyLinkedInX) is Executive Editor at Just Security.  She is also the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law 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 Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School.  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. She is the Director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum. She has published more than forty law review articles, and The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott Shapiro, 2017).

Areas of Expertise: International Law, Law of Armed Conflict/IHL

Articles by this author:

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 18, 2025 in Washington, DC.
ASIL President Oona Hathaway stands at podium reading "The 120th ASIL Annual Meeting."
Plumes of smoke rise following reported explosions in Tehran early on March 3, 2026. The United States and Israel started striking Iran on February 28, killing Iran's supreme leader and top military leaders, and prompting authorities to retaliate with strikes on Israel and across the Gulf. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
Granite being mined in Ukraine
U.S. President Donal Trump shakes hands with El Salvador Presidnet Nayib Bukele next to an American flag.
A close up of the tab from a confidential file folder.
A woman takes a selfie as people wave independence-era Syrian flags during a demonstration
The episode title appears with sound waves behind it.
Ukrainian flags in memory of soldiers who died during the war against Russia are seen on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti
A courtyard in the Abu Ghrab is shown with prisoner cells on the sides. The photo is taken from behind a gate.
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