Rebecca Ingber

Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, LAW

Rebecca Ingber joined the BU Law faculty as an associate professor of law in July 2015. She is a scholar of international and foreign affairs law and presidential power, and she has written about matters of national security, war powers, the laws of war, and the engagement of the U.S. executive branch bureaucracy in these areas. Ingber’s scholarship is informed by her practice in these fields. She served for six years in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State, where she worked on a range of matters involving the law of armed conflict, detention policy, and national security, as well as diplomatic property and government contracts, and on litigation before both US courts, and international courts, including the US Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice.

Ingber received her BA from Yale University, her JD from Harvard Law School, and she clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow (2011–2012); an associate research scholar with the Project on Harmonizing Standards for Armed Conflict at the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute (2012–2013); and an associate-in-law at Columbia Law School (2013–2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the American Journal of International Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, and the Yale Journal of International Law, among others.