Rebecca Hamilton
American University, Washington College of Law Assistant Professor of Law
hamilton@wcl.american.edu
Rebecca ("Bec") Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, and has just been awarded a 2019-2020 fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bec 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. She previously served as a lawyer in the prosecutorial division of the International Criminal Court and has worked in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney and Harvard Law School. Her most recent article, User-Generated Evidence, was about the use of social media evidence in international prosecutions: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3124409