Rebecca Ingber

Associate Research Scholar in the Faculty of Law

Office: Jerome Greene Hall, Room 634
435 West 116 Street
New York NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-0337
Email: rebecca.ingber@law.columbia.edu

Education

  • B.A., with honors and distinction in major, Yale University, 2000
  • J.D., with honors, Harvard Law School, 2005

Biography
Rebecca Ingber is an Associate Research Scholar with the Project on Harmonizing Standards for Armed Conflict at the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, and a Consulting Fellow for Law and Strategy with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.  She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the Southern District of New York.  She then joined the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, where she worked on matters involving the law of armed conflict and national security, serving as the principal staff attorney for domestic and foreign litigation issues involving the law of armed conflict.  In prior roles at the State Department, she worked on matters of diplomatic property and on litigation before the ICJ.  She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a 2011-2012 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and Hertog National Security Law Fellow at Columbia Law School. 

Recent Publications

  • Untangling Belligerency from Neutrality in the Conflict with Al-Qaeda, 47 Tex. Int'l. L.J. 75 (2011)
  • Interpretation Catalysts and Executive Lawmaking, 38 Yale J. Int'l L. __ ( forthcoming 2013)