Elena Chachko
S.J.D. 2022
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Contributor, Lawfare
echachko at law.harvard.edu
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-Present
- 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: August 4, 2020