Rebecca Hamilton, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law (WCL), and faculty affiliate of the Tech, Law & Security Program. Her research and teaching focus on the ways in which technology intersects with national security law, international law, and criminal law. Her scholarship draws on her experience in the prosecution of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, as well as her work in conflict zones as a foreign correspondent. 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.
Before joining the faculty at WCL, Hamilton served as a lawyer in the prosecutorial division of the International Criminal Court, working on cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda and Sudan. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law. Prior to entering academia, Hamilton worked as a journalist for the Washington Post and Reuters. A Pulitzer Center grantee, and former fellow at New America and Open Society Foundations, as well as a 2019-2020 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, she has also written for Foreign Affairs, the New Yorker, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, and the New Republic. She has appeared on PBS Newshour, NPR, BBC, Al-Jazeera, and other media outlets. She is a member of the New York Bar and serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.
