Will Ossoff is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant for the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC). Will currently provides research support for the PILAC project titled “International Legal and Policy Dimensions of War Algorithms: Enduring and Emerging Concerns.” Earlier, he served as a contributor to the Annex of the 2019 PILAC report titled Quantum of Silence: Inaction and Jus ad Bellum and provided research support on the U.N. Security Council.

Will is the Lead Executive Editor for Online of the Harvard International Law Journal. He served as a legal intern in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense. Prior to law school, Will worked as a Research Assistant for Professor Graham Allison at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, and as a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 2015 with a B.A. in Government and Legal Studies.

Biography last updated: October 2019