Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; president-elect, American Society of International Law; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense .. more
Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; president-elect, American Society of International Law; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense
Oona Anne Hathaway is an American legal scholar specialized in international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science, Professor at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014-15, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense. She is the president-elect of the American Society of International Law. .. more
"Recognition Rules: The Case for a New International Law of Government Recognition"
Published in @nyulawreview.bsky.social, with coauthors Justin Cole and Alaa Hachem.
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More of my thoughts: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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on "Customary International Law What Role Can it Play in Responding to Contemporary Global Crises?”
#ILW2025
Oona’s analysis:
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Adil’s analysis:
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www.jura.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...
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@oonahathaway.bsky.social marking the launch of the JuDem Project at CCRD @humboldtuni.bsky.social
🗓️ Nov 17, 2025 | 18:00
📍 Humboldt Graduate School, Festsaal
Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin
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We tackle the many hard legal issues this new reality raises @nyulawreview.bsky.social.
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