Rebecca Ingber

Member, Board of Editors

Rebecca Ingber (BlueskyLinkedInX) is a Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and a Crane Fellow in Law and Public Policy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She is an expert in international law, national security, foreign relations law, and the constitutional separation of powers. She is also a senior fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. From 2021 to 2023, Ingber served as the Counselor on International Law in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

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. Her work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, and the American Journal of International Law, among others, and she has written for general audiences in legal blogs such as Just Security and Lawfare, and publications such as the Washington Post and the Atlantic. Ingber joined the Cardozo faculty in 2020 from BU Law, where she received the Dean’s Award for Scholarship. She was also a co-recipient of the inaugural Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship for her article, “Co-Belligerency” (2017).

Ingber is the U.S. Substitute Member to the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy Through Law (better known as the Venice Commission). She also serves on the Advisory Committee on International Law to the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, and as one of the U.S. representatives to the roster of experts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Moscow Mechanism. Ingber has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on executive power and judicial deference, national security, and war powers. She is a member of The American Law Institute and an Adviser on the ALI’s Foreign Relations Law Restatement. She is also a member of the editorial board of Just Security. She has co-chaired the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations and at Columbia Law School, and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy and on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Before entering academia, Ingber served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Articles by this author:

What Just Happened: At Guantanamo’s Migrant Operation Center

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Feb 6th, 2025

Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

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Dec 10th, 2024

Confronting the War on International Law in the United States

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Oct 25th, 2024

Legally Sliding into War

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Mar 15th, 2021

Good Governance Paper No. 17: How to Use the Bureaucracy to Govern Well

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Oct 31st, 2020

Bureaucratic Resistance and the Deep State Myth

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Oct 18th, 2019

Iran’s Shifting Views on Self-Defense and ‘Intraterritorial’ Force

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Jul 3rd, 2019

Bill Barr’s Extreme Views on War Powers Mean Congress’s Window to Stop War with Iran is Now

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May 20th, 2019

UPDATE: Mapping States’ Reactions to the Syria Strikes of April 2018

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May 7th, 2018

Mapping States’ Reactions to the U.S. Strikes Against Syria of April 2018–A Comprehensive Guide

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May 7th, 2018

Mapping States’ Reactions to the Syria Strikes of April 2018

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Apr 22nd, 2018

International Law is Failing Us in Syria

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Apr 12th, 2017

The Terminology of War and the Consequences for Executive Power

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Oct 17th, 2016