Haley Anderson

Haley S. Anderson will join the Law School faculty in Fall 2026. She writes and will be teaching in the areas of civil procedure, international law, and federal courts. Her interdisciplinary scholarship especially focuses on the concept of sovereignty, including its roots in early modern European political thought and its appearance in legal doctrine and practice today. Her work can be found in the Washington & Lee Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Litigation, Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, and University of Chicago Law Review Online, among others.

Most recently, Professor Anderson was an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. She received her B.A. with highest distinction from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a managing editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review, a scholar at the Institute of International Law and Justice, and the 2014 recipient of the John Bruce Moore Award for excellence in law and philosophy. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at University of California Berkeley.

Before returning to academia, Professor Anderson worked for the Permanent Mission of Mozambique to the United Nations in Geneva, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP’s disputes team, Oxford University Press, and Just Security, among others.