Rebecca Hamilton

Corporate Enablers

Bec Hamilton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:24:55 +0000

Thanks to Julian Morrow at ABC’s Radio National for interviewing me about the trials for corporate complicity in mass atrocities underway in Europe. You can listen here.

A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

Bec Hamilton — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:57:12 +0000

Much gratitude to M. Gessen for writing about my work on the corporate enablers of atrocities, in light of the hard-won legal victory against LaFarge for atrocities in Syria. (Stay tuned for my forthcoming book project, White Collar War Criminals). You can read the column here.

Why Trump’s Iran Threats Are Raising War Crimes Concerns

Bec Hamilton — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:04:09 +0000

I spoke to Bloomberg News about the laws of war in light of Trump’s latest threats. You can read the article here.

Iran targets Gulf energy sites

Bec Hamilton — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:46:58 +0000

Thank you to the BBC World Service for the opportunity to address concerns raised by the international law experts letter I joined (available here) about the legality of U.S. strikes in Iran as part of their coverage. You can listen to my interview here (14:14 – 14:18).

Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes

Bec Hamilton — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:41:08 +0000

I was proud to stand with over 100 U.S.-based international lawyers in raising our concerns about U.S. strikes in Iran. Law never upholds itself. I hope our letter can be used to push those at home and abroad to fulfil their obligations to international law. Thank you to Just Security for hosting the letter, which you can read in full here.

Transitional Justice in Syria: Domestic-Led Accountability Efforts Cannot Function in Isolation

Bec Hamilton — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:34:09 +0000

Immense amounts of documentation can be a blessing and a curse when it comes to war crimes investigations. I wrote with Anya Neistat, the President of InterJust, to highlight the new tools that can empower local actors to pursue accountability. Read here.

Aggression, Plain and Simple

Bec Hamilton — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:52:22 +0000

Tom Dannenbaum and I co-authored this response to Professors Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen in relation to the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran.

International Reactions to Military Strikes on Iran: A Tipping Point for the UN Charter?

Bec Hamilton — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:25:09 +0000

At 2.30am EST on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced via a video on Truth Social from his resort in Mar-a-Lago that the U.S. military has begun “major combat operations in Iran.” The overnight strikes, which are an unequivocal violation of the UN Charter, come after weeks of U.S. military build-up in the region and against the backdrop of ongoing diplomatic negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Read about the stakes for the of the international reaction here.

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

Bec Hamilton — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:28:32 +0000

Press freedom in the United States has continued to come under attack since the last reporting period (Dec. 9), with individual journalists bearing the brunt of recent events through a mix of layoffs, arrests, and in one case an FBI raid of a journalist’s home.

A seismic shift in the press landscape came in the first week of February 2026, with mass layoffs at the Washington Post. The storied broadsheet, bought by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2013, terminated roughly one third of its staff, shuttering its sports desk, ending its book section, and decimating its international reporting. Continue reading at Just Security.

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If Trump broke international law, so what?

Ben Wallace — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:11:29 +0000

I spoke about why the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela violates international law, why self-defense claims fail under the UN Charter, and what it indicates about the constraints of international law.