Laurie Hobart G’16

Associate Teaching Professor (315) 443-9541 lnhobart@syr.edu Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Laurie Hobart G’16 teaches doctrinal courses on national security law and constitutional law; a seminar on the rule of law in post-conflict reconstruction with a focus on the law of war, international criminal law, and transitional justice; a research seminar on emerging technologies and national security law and ethics; and an interdisciplinary course on legal and literary writing with a focus on the literature of war and national identity politics. In past years, she has also taught counterterrorism law, first-year legal research and writing courses, and undergraduate English and writing courses at Syracuse University.

Her academic research has largely focused on developing legal and ethical frameworks around artificial intelligence. Hobart has published, or has forthcoming work, with the Federal Judicial Center, the National Academies Press, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. She currently chairs the Faculty Clerkship Committee.

From 2009 to 2013, Hobart worked as an Honors Attorney and Assistant General Counsel within the intelligence community, serving in litigation, administrative law, and contract law divisions, and received a Harvard Heyman Fellowship for federal service. She has also worked as an associate at King & Spalding LLP, and as a law clerk to the Hon. Charles F. Lettow of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, a J.D. from Harvard Law School , and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Syracuse University.