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Beyond Takedown: Expanding the toolkit for responding to online hate
Rebecca J. Hamilton (with Molly K. Land), Beyond Takedown: Expanding the Toolkit for Responding to Online Hate, in Propaganda and International Criminal Law (Predrag Dojčinović, ed.)(2019). The current preoccupation with ‘fake news’ has spurred a renewed emphasis in popular discourse…
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Atrocity Prevention in the New Media Landscape
Journalists have traditionally played a crucial role in building public pressure on government officials to uphold their legal obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. But over the past twenty years there has been radical…
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Exit from International Tribunals
Rebecca J. Hamilton (with Joost Pauwelyn), Exit from International Tribunals, J. INT’L DISPUTE RES., 679 (2018). This Commentary marks the first effort to provide a comprehensive overview of the attempts that States have made to exit international tribunals over the…
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State-Enabled Crimes
Rebecca Hamilton, State-Enabled Crimes, 41 (2) Yale J. Intl. L. 102 (2016) International crimes are committed by individuals, but many – from genocide in Rwanda to torture at Abu Ghraib – would not have occurred without the integral role played by…
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The ICC’s Exit Problem
Rebecca J. Hamilton, The ICC’s Exit Problem, 47 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 1 (2014) The International Criminal Court (ICC) was never meant to supplant the domestic prosecution of international crimes. And yet the Court is now entering its second…
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The ICJ’s Genocide Judgment – Bosnia v. Serbia
Richard J. Goldstone & Rebecca J. Hamilton, Bosnia v. Serbia: Lessons from the Encounter of the International Court of Justice with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 21 Leiden J. Int’l L. 95 (2008) (peer reviewed). This article…
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Jesner v. Arab Bank
Rebecca J. Hamilton, Jesner v. Arab Bank (International Decisions), 112 (4) Am. J. Int’l L. 720 (2018). The exclusion of transnational human rights litigation from U.S. federal courts is, for most practical purposes, now complete. On April 24, 2018, the…
Scholarship
Bec’s scholarship has been published in the Yale Journal of International Law, Human Rights Quarterly, Harvard International Law Journal, Foreign Affairs, Harvard Human Rights Journal, and other leading publications.