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Oona Hathaway
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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. Website: oonahathaway.com. .. more

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

Political science 42%
Economics 24%
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I made a website that contains (nearly) all of my writing and podcasts in one place. You can search across all the content at once. And you can subscribe to receive a newsletter when I post new work (no more than once a week).

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Horrific cost of DOGE cuts:

If current projected US foreign aid cuts remain in place, by 2030 "the projected excess deaths would be 9.4 million (95% UI 6.2–12.6) overall and 2.5 million (1.8–3.2) among children younger than 5 years."

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Impact of two decades of humanitarian and development assistance and the projected mortality consequences of current defunding to 2030: retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis
ODA funding has played a decisive role in reducing preventable mortality across LMICs over the past two decades, and the abrupt withdrawal of this support threatens to cause millions of avoidable deat...
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Too true.

Glad to do this interview with Shinichi Ikeda, of The Asahi, on the latest violations of international law by the Trump Administration.

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次期米国際法学会長、ベネズエラ攻撃で憂慮 広島で人間への思い深め:朝日新聞
突然ベネズエラの首都を攻撃し、現職大統領夫妻を拘束し米国に連れ去る――。年始早々、「法の支配」ではなく「力こそ正義」を見せつけた米トランプ政権。そんな政権を厳しく批判するのが、米イエール大学教授で、…
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Now out!

"The World Court's Enforcement Dilemma--And How to Solve It" in The Georgetown Law Journal, with my coauthors Cindy Garay and Kevin Zhang.

You can read it here:

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Glad to speak with Shirin Jaafari for this story on the US sanctions on the International Criminal Court:

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US sanctions defy norms for International Criminal Court - The World from PRX
The US has imposed sanctions on 11 judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court. It has also sanctioned some individuals and NGOs working with the court. This has complicated the lives o...
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Oona Hathaway joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why a golden age of treaties seems to be tarnishing, how the legal basis for entering conflicts is being conflated and reinterpreted, and how aggressive U.S. tactics are upsetting the world order.

Listen:

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Think from KERA
For decades, treaties meant war could be avoided if everyone just followed the law. Oona A. Hathaway teaches law and political science at Yale and is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment fo...
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"Many presidents have pushed at the limits of their powers to achieve some particular goal.

What makes Mr. Trump’s claims to expanded executive authority unprecedented is not just his aggressiveness, but the sheer volume of the ways he is consolidating power."

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Trump’s massive and myriad power grabs, visualized and explained

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Trump Tests Presidential Power: Venezuela Operation, Iran Bombing and More
A breakdown of the presidential powers President Trump has sought for himself, including what he did to obtain power and what’s next.
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Unhinged

Trump now says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on some of our closest allies until the US can buy Greenland.

It's long past time for Congress to put an end to this.

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For more on the case, and the revolution in international human rights law it helped ignite, read here:

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Public hearings are happening now in the International Court of Justice on the merits of the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). Watch here:

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THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case The Gambia v. Myanmar
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the merits of the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia ...
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