Professor of Law
Rebecca Hamilton is a Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law (WCL).Her research and teaching focus on national security law, technology, international law, and criminal law. Her scholarship draws on her experience in the prosecution of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, as well as her journalism background, including work in conflict zones as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. 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.
April 27, 2025
Episode 98: The Loss of Press Freedom with Professor Rebecca Hamilton
A Free ranging discussion of freedom of the press. Dictators hate a free press. Victor Orbán in Hungary built his own media universe while simultaneously dismantling the free press. The Nazis smashed printing presses of oppos...