Elena Chachko
S.J.D. 2022
echachko at law.harvard.edu
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Contributor, Lawfare
University of California-Berkeley Law School
Dissertation
Policy and Procedure in the Age of Individualized Foreign and Security Policy
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Foreign Relations Law with Professor Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
- Compliance with International Law with Professor Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
- Empirical Methods in International Law and Political Science with Professor Adam Chilton, University of Chicago School of Law
Additional Research Interests
- Administrative Law
- National Security Law
- Public International Law
- Public Law Theory
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate, 2016-2022
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program, 2015-2016 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived) (Fulbright Scholar)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LL.B., 2014 (Law and International Relations, magna cum laude)
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, Comparative Foreign Relations Law, Fall 2019
- Post-doctoral Fellow, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
- Fellow, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School, 2018-2019
- Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2018-2019
- Coordinator, Harvard Empirical Legal Studies Series, 2017-2019
- Teaching Fellow, Public International Law, Harvard Law School, 2018-2019
- Researcher, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak National Security and Democracy Program, Israel Democracy Institute, 2017-2019
- Graduate Program Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2016-2017
Representative Publications
Articles
- Administrative National Security, 108 Georgetown Law Journal 1063 (2020) (Harvard Law School Irving Oberman Prize)
- Foreign Affairs in Court: Lessons from CJEU Targeted Sanctions Jurisprudence, 44 Yale Journal of International Law 1 (2019) (Harvard Law School Mancini Prize)
- On Ripeness and Constitutionality, 43 Mishpatim Law Journal 419 (2012) (Hebrew University Faculty of Law George Webber Award)
Selected Additional Publications
- Persistent Aggrandizement? Israel’s Cyber Defense Architecture, Hoover Institution AEGIS Paper Series (Forthcoming 2020)
- Revisiting Judicial Review in Foreign Affairs, 43 Fordham International Law Journal 1273 (2020) (Annual symposium)
- Due Process is in the Details: U.S. Targeted Sanctions and International Human Rights Law, American Journal of International Law Unbound (2019)
Additional Information
Languages: English, Hebrew, Russian
Last Updated: July 7th, 2023