Oona A. Hathaway

Yale University - Law School

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Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference?

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 111, 2002, Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 02-03
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 18 May 2002 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2015
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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International law, treaties, human rights, compliance, regional treaties, human rights treaties, international legal compliance, torture, women's political equality, genocide, civil liberty, free trials, cross national panel data, expressive theory, signaling theory

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The Law of Cyber-Attack

California Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 4, 2012, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 453, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 258
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2012
Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Philip Levitz, Haley Proctor, Aileen Elizabeth Nowlan, William Perdue and Julia Spiegel
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Yale University - Law School, Independent and Independent
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cyber-attack, cyber-crime, cyber-warfare, jus ad bellum, jus in bello, national security, war, stuxnet

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Path Dependence in the Law: The Course and Pattern of Legal Change in a Common Law System

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Path Dependence in the Law: The Course and Pattern of Legal Change in a Common Law System

The Iowa Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 2, January 2001
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 28 Mar 2003
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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path dependence, common law, legal system, stare decisis, precedent

Path Dependence in the Law: The Course and Pattern of Legal Change in a Common Law System

As published in Iowa Law Review, Vol. 86, 2001 (Boston University School of Law Research Paper)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Aug 2000
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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Between Power and Principle: An Integrated Theory of International Law

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 71, May 2005
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 11 May 2008
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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International law, compliance, treaties, environment, human rights

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Treaties' End: The Past, Present, and Future of International Lawmaking in the United States

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 117, No. 8, 2008
Number of pages: 137 Posted: 20 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 27 May 2008
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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Treaty Clause, Congressional-Executive Agreement, International Law

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Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, No. 2, p. 252, 2011, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 240
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 02 Nov 2011
Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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international law, treaties, World Trade Organization, Enforcement, jurisprudence

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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Domestic Enforcement of International Law

INTERNATIONAL LAW STORIES, Foundation Press, 2007
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Aug 2007
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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Hamdan, torture, Guantanamo, detainees, international law, Geneva Conventions

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The Promise and Limits of the International Law of Torture

TORTURE: A COLLECTION, Sanford Levinson, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Jun 2008
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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international law, torture

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Ensuring Responsibility: Common Article 1 and State Responsibility for Non-State Actors

Texas Law Review, Vol. 95, (2017) , Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 563
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2018
Oona A. Hathaway, Emily Chertoff, Lara Dominguez, Zachary Manfredi and Peter Tzeng
Yale University - Law School, Yale University, Law School, Student, Yale University, Law School, Students, Yale University, Law School, Students and Foley Hoag LLP
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Geneva Conventions, ICRC, international humanitarian law, ICTY, ICJ, state responsibility

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Why Do Countries Commit to Human Rights Treaties?

Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 588-621, August 2007, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 356
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2015
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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international law, human rights, democracy, torture, treaties

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Presidential Power over International Law: Restoring the Balance

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 119, No. 2, p, 140, 2009, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 199
Number of pages: 129 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2012
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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international law, congressional executive agreement, president, article II, democracy

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Rationalism and Revisionism in International Law

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1404-43, 2006 , Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 113, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 339
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 11 May 2008
Oona A. Hathaway and Ariel N. Lavinbuk
Yale University - Law School and Yale Law School
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international law, revisionism, rational choice theory, Eric Posner, Jack Goldsmith

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International Delegation and State Sovereignty

Law and Contemporary Problems, January 2008
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Aug 2007
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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international law, sovereignty, consent

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The Cost of Commitment

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 47, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 273
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 11 May 2008
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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treaties, united nations, genocide, torture, civil liberties, fair trials, women's rights, compliance, human rights

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Limited War and the Constitution: Iraq and the Crisis of Presidential Legality

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 109, p. 447, 2011, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 216
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 16 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2011
Bruce Ackerman and Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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war, Iraq, limited war, declare war, power of the purse

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International Law at Home: Enforcing Treaties in U.S. Courts

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, No. 1, p. 51, 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 242
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 23 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2012
Oona A. Hathaway, Sara Aronchick Solow and Sabria McElroy
Yale University - Law School, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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The Continuing Influence of the New Haven School

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 09 May 2008
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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New Haven School, International Law, Myres McDougal, Harold Lasswell

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War Manifestos

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 85, 2018 Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 617
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 19 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2018
Oona A. Hathaway, William Holste, Scott J. Shapiro, Jacqueline Van De Velde and Lisa Lachowicz
Yale University - Law School, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Yale University - Law School, Independent and Debevoise & Plimpton
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The Treaty Power: Its History, Scope, and Limits

Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 267
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 01 Oct 2012
Oona A. Hathaway, Spencer E. Amdur, Celia Choy, Samir Deger-Sen, Haley Proctor, Eric John G. Paredes and Sally Pei
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, Covington & Burling, Independent, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Marsh & McLennan Companies - Oliver Wyman and Yale University - Law School
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Article II, Necessary and Proper Clause, Constitution, Commerce Clause, federalism, U.S. v. Bond, Missouri v. Holland

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Testing Conventional Wisdom

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2003, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 48, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 274
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 11 May 2008
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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treaties, international law, human rights, empirical analysis

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Consent-Based Humanitarian Intervention: Giving Sovereign Responsibility Back to the Sovereign

Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 46, 2013, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 503
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 29 Apr 2014
Oona A. Hathaway, Julia Brower, Ryan Liss, Tina Thomas and Jacob Victor
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, Western University - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and NYU School of Law
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United Nations, Humanitarian Intervention, Consent, Customary International Law

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Consent Is Not Enough: Why States Must Respect the Intensity Threshold in Transnational Conflict

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 165, No. 1, 2016, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 584
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2016
Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Daniel Hessel, Julia Shu and Sarah Weiner
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Yale Information Society Project, Independent, Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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international humanitarian law, IHL, law of armed conflict, human rights law, non-international armed conflict, intervention

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Yemen: Is the U.S. Breaking the Law?

Harvard National Security Journal, Forthcoming , Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 658
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2018
Oona A. Hathaway, Aaron Haviland, Srinath Reddy Kethireddy and Alyssa Yamamoto
Yale University - Law School, Yale University, Law School, Students, Yale University, Law School, Students and Yale University - Law School
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Yemen, IHL, Common Article 1, State Responsibility, Law of Armed Conflict, Article 2(4), AECA, War Powers Resolution, Alien Tort Statute, Aiding and Abetting

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What is a War Crime?

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 44, 2019
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 May 2019
Oona A. Hathaway, Paul Strauch, Beatrice Walton and Zoe Weinberg
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, International Court of Justice and Yale University - Law School
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war crime, IHL, international humanitarian law, Geneva Conventions, ICC

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Which Law Governs During Armed Conflict? The Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 1883, 2012
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Philip Levitz, Haley Proctor, William Perdue, Chelsea Purvis and Julia Spiegel
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Independent, Independent and Independent
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international humanitarian law, law of armed conflict, human rights law, jursiprudence, conflict of law

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International Law and Its Transformation Through the Outlawry of War

Forthcoming in International Affairs, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 660
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Dec 2018
Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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International Law, First World War, Kellogg-Briand Treaty

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Positive Feedback: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Industry Demands for Protection

International Organization, Vol. 52, No. 3, 1998
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 May 2008
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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trade, international law, trade law, footwear, apparel, textiles, positive feedback

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Response to Critics

Forthcoming in Global Constitutionalism, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 663
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 27 Dec 2018
Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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international law, state behavior

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Congress's Power to Constrain Presidential Withdrawal from International Agreements: A Working Paper

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Feb 2019
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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Article II Treaty, Congressional-Executive Agreement, Sole Executive Agreement, Non-Binding Commitment, Withdrawal

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A Comparative Foreign Relations Law Agenda: Opportunities and Challenges

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 May 2019
Oona A. Hathaway
Yale University - Law School
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Comparative Foreign Relations Law

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What Realists Don't Understand About the Law

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Feb 2018
Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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