<span class="vcard">Rebecca Ingber</span>

Rebecca Ingber

Member, Board of Editors

Rebecca Ingber (BlueskyLinkedInX) is a Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and a Crane Fellow in Law and Public Policy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She is an expert in international law, national security, foreign relations law, and the constitutional separation of powers. She is also a senior fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. From 2021 to 2023, Ingber served as the Counselor on International Law in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Ingber received her BA from Yale University, her JD from Harvard Law School, and she clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr., of the Southern District of New York. Her work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, and the American Journal of International Law, among others, and she has written for general audiences in legal blogs such as Just Security and Lawfare, and publications such as the Washington Post and the Atlantic. Ingber joined the Cardozo faculty in 2020 from BU Law, where she received the Dean’s Award for Scholarship. She was also a co-recipient of the inaugural Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship for her article, “Co-Belligerency” (2017).

Ingber is the U.S. Substitute Member to the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy Through Law (better known as the Venice Commission). She also serves on the Advisory Committee on International Law to the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, and as one of the U.S. representatives to the roster of experts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Moscow Mechanism. Ingber has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on executive power and judicial deference, national security, and war powers. She is a member of The American Law Institute and an Adviser on the ALI’s Foreign Relations Law Restatement. She is also a member of the editorial board of Just Security. She has co-chaired the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations and at Columbia Law School, and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy and on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Before entering academia, Ingber served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Articles by this author:

In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, members of the Salvadoran army stand guard at the gates of the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
Map of State Reactions to the ICC Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
An American flag flies behind barbed wire fencing at the Office of Military Commissions building
Alternating American flags and United Nations flags, set around a pole, wave in the wind.
A Yemeni child standing under a damaged building looks out of a missing wall at buildings that were heavily damaged in an air strike in the southern Yemeni city of Taez.
Parchment paper reading, “The Good Governance Papers: A Collection of Essays in favor of public integrity and the rule of law as written upon at Just Security Fall 2020”
Silhouettes of three people talking to each other.
Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi holds up maps of the Strait of Hormuz while speaking to the media before a meeting with other UN members on the escalating situation with the United States At United Nation headquarters on June 24, 2019 in New York City.
U.S. President Donald Trump listens to Attorney General William Barr during the 38th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the west front of the Capitol May 15, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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