Hathaway was born and raised in
Portland, Oregon. While in high school, she participated in the
We the People and Mock Trial programs as a student at
Lincoln High School, where she was also student body president.[2]
After graduation, Hathaway clerked for Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor of the
U.S. Supreme Court during the 1998 Term, and for D.C. Circuit Judge
Patricia Wald. Following her clerkships, Hathaway held fellowships at Harvard University's
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and
Center for the Ethics and the Professions.[5][6] She was an associate professor at
Boston University School of Law and served as Professor of Law at
UC Berkeley School of Law.[7][8][9] She is currently the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, counselor to the dean 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 an Executive Editor at Just Security.[10][11]
Hathaway, Oona (2021). "National Security Lawyering in the Post-War Era: Can Law Constrain Power?". UCLA Law Review. 68 – via Social Science Research Network.[27]
Hathaway, Oona; Strauch, Paul; Walton, Beatrice; Weinberg, Zoe (2019). "What is a War Crime". The Yale Journal of International Law. 44: 54–113 – via digitalcommons.law.yale.edu.[28]
Hathaway, Oona; Chertoff, Emily; Domínguez, Lara; Manfredi, Zachary; Tzeng, Peter (2017). "Ensuring Responsibility: Common Article 1 and State Responsibility for Non-State Actors" (PDF). Texas Law Review. 95: 540–590 – via Texas Law Review.[29]
Hathaway, Oona; Brower, Julia; Liss, Ryan; Thomas, Tina; Victor, Jacob (2014). "Consent-Based Humanitarian Intervention: Giving Sovereign Responsibility Back to the Sovereign". Cornell International Law Journal. 46: 499–568 – via digitalcommons.law.yale.edu.[30]
Hathaway, Oona (August 2007). "Why Do Countries Commit to Human Rights Treaties?". Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 356 – via Social Science Research Network.[31]
Hathaway, Oona (2005). "Between Power and Principle: An Integrated Theory of International Law". University of Chicago Law Review. 71 – via Social Science Research Network.[32]
Books
Hathaway, Oona A. & Harold Hongju Koh (2005). Foundations of international law and politics. New York: Foundation Press.
Hathaway, Oona A. & Scott J. Shapiro (2017). The internationalists : how a radical plan to outlaw war remade the world. New York: Simon & Schuster.[33]
Published in the UK as Hathaway, Oona & Scott Shapiro (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. Allen Lane.
^Jacob S. Hacker; Paul Pierson (2011). Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, (Acknowledgements). Simon and Schuster.