A Year that Changed the World: The War in Ukraine, and How it Shaped the International Legal Order

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2023-02-23 12:00:00 2023-02-23 13:00:00 A Year that Changed the World: The War in Ukraine, and How it Shaped the International Legal Order Event Description Professor Hathaway will speak about the war in Ukraine and the future of the international legal order.  What does the war teach us about the viability of the post-war legal order, which is grounded in the prohibition on the use of force by one state against another? How effective is the use of sanctions as a tool of the international community in responding to acts of aggression? And what are the prospects for accountability for the war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of aggression committed in Ukraine? Speaker Bio Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law 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, and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005. In 2014-15, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. Hathaway is the Director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published more than forty law review articles, and The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott Shapiro, 2017).  She is also Executive Editor of and regular author at Just Security, and she writes often for popular publications such as The Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs. CLE Reading Materials Contact This Event Coordinator Eric Siler 216.368.1806  eric.siler@case.edu Case School of Law Moot Courtroom 11075 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44106 School of Law School of Law America/New_York public