Rebecca Ingber Joins BU Law as Associate Professor
The scholar of international law, national security, and presidential power from Columbia Law School will begin teaching in Fall 2015.
Boston University School of Law is pleased to welcome Rebecca Ingber, who will join the faculty as associate professor of law in Fall 2015. The scholar of international law comes to us from Columbia Law School, where she is an associate in law.
Ingber focuses her research on international law, national security, the laws of war, and executive branch decision-making. She has published on these issues in the Harvard International Law Journal, the Yale Journal of International Law, and the Texas International Law Journal. At BU Law, she will teach public international law, international business transactions, and a seminar on contemporary issues in law and war.
Ingber brings to the School of Law six years of experience working in the US Department of State. In the Office of the Legal Adviser, she was the principal staff attorney for domestic and foreign litigation issues involving the law of armed conflict. In prior roles in the Office of the Legal Adviser, she worked on matters of diplomatic property and government contracts, and on litigation before the Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice in the Medellín v. Texas and Avena and Other Mexican Nationals cases.
In addition to her work in the State Department, Ingber was a 2011–2012 Council on Foreign Relations and International Affairs Fellow and Hertog National Security Law Fellow at Columbia Law School, and a 2012–2013 associate research scholar with the Project on Harmonizing Standards for Armed Conflict at the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute. She is currently a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a consulting fellow for law and strategy with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Ingber received her BA, cum laude, in Religious Studies from Yale University and her JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. After law school she clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the Southern District of New York.
“I am delighted to be joining the BU Law faculty,” says Ingber. “I am impressed by the engaged student body, the collegiality of the faculty and their dedication to scholarship and intellectual exchange, and the high value the School places on quality teaching. I very much look forward to becoming a member of this community.”
Reported by Sara Womble (CFA’14)