Rebecca Hamilton Email and Phone Number

Rebecca ("Bec") Hamilton is a Professor of Law at American University, Washington College of Law, Executive Editor at Just Security, 2023 Visiting Professor at UCLA Law, and 2024 U.S. Fulbright Scholar. She teaches national security law, criminal law, and international law. Before entering academia she was The Washington Post correspondent on Sudan. Previously she worked in the Prosecution division of the International Criminal Court on cases involving genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. A faculty affiliate of the Tech, Law & Security Program, Professor Hamilton’s recent scholarship on mass atrocities in the digital era has appeared in the Yale Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, and Boston College Law Review. She is the author of FIGHTING FOR DARFUR: PUBLIC ACTION AND THE STRUGGLE TO STOP GENOCIDE, which analyzes citizen activism and the effort to stop mass atrocities. As an International Affairs Fellow (IAF), she recently served in the Office of Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict in the Department of Defense. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Professor Hamilton has received a number of grants, awards, fellowships, including the WCL Award for Innovation in Pedagogy (2021), the Pauline Ruyle Moore Scholars Award (2018, 2020), and the CFR International Affairs Fellowship (2020). She has also been a Pulitzer Center grantee, and the recipient of fellowships from New America and the Open Society Foundations. Prior to entering academia she worked as a journalist for the Washington Post, and Reuters. Her writing has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. Recent interviews include PBS Newshour, NPR, BBC, Al-Jazeera, and other media outlets. Professor Hamilton serves on the Editorial Board of the national security law publication, Just Security. She is a member of the New York Bar, the American Society of International Law, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. As a proud first generation high school and college graduate, she serves as a mentor to ADVANCE, WCL’s firstgen student organization. With the financial support of a Knox Fellowship, she received her J.D from Harvard Law School and M.P.P from Harvard Kennedy School. A graduate of the University of Sydney, she was born in Aotearoa, NZ. She lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and four young children.