At its annual meeting this month, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science Oona Hathaway ’97 assumed the presidency of the American Society of International Law (ASIL).
Hathaway’s expertise as an international law scholar has been sought after in the media, especially in recent months. She has contributed op-eds or been cited in The New York Times, NPR, TIME, and interviewed by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and other major media outlets on issues including actions in Venezuela and the war in Iran.
ASIL was founded as a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization in 1906. Chartered by Congress in 1950, its mission is to “foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice.”