Bec Hamilton
@bechamilton.bsky.social
Law Prof at AUWCL |Exec. Editor at Just Security |Mama of 4 fab young ppl |Fmr Washington Post, Reuters, International Criminal Court| Atrocity prevention, tech, climate |Proud #firstgen | Open water swimmer|
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This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.
Don’t Call This a ‘Peace Plan’
If the U.S.-Russia plan for Ukraine goes forward, Donald Trump will be remembered as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.
foreignpolicy.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.
Please join me in calling on Harvard to revoke Summers' tenure: "It’s time Harvard fight for justice and protection for survivors and students, not predators and their accomplices" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Please join me in calling on Harvard to revoke Summers' tenure: "It’s time Harvard fight for justice and protection for survivors and students, not predators and their accomplices" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you care about a #freepress make sure you are following @jameeljaffer.bsky.social this morning as the AP case is argued in the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=svW7... [Sign up for all things knightcolumbia.org while you're at it]
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November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you care about a #freepress make sure you are following @jameeljaffer.bsky.social this morning as the AP case is argued in the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=svW7... [Sign up for all things knightcolumbia.org while you're at it]
The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
“Mr. Epstein reaped the benefits of smarts by association in hanging around them, of the reputation cleanse of affiliation with Harvard professors and a former Treasury secretary, and of getting to cosplay as statesman” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Mr. Epstein reaped the benefits of smarts by association in hanging around them, of the reputation cleanse of affiliation with Harvard professors and a former Treasury secretary, and of getting to cosplay as statesman” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Great resource: www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Great resource: www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
I'm grateful for this, at least. It remains insane that this was not the absolute first step in this unravelling: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I'm grateful for this, at least. It remains insane that this was not the absolute first step in this unravelling: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Excellent call by @ichotiner.bsky.social to interview Kholood Khair for this NewYorker piece on #Sudan. Kholood has the perspective & expertise that the public needs to hear in this moment. Please read: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe
After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.
www.newyorker.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Excellent call by @ichotiner.bsky.social to interview Kholood Khair for this NewYorker piece on #Sudan. Kholood has the perspective & expertise that the public needs to hear in this moment. Please read: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Thank you
I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe
Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thank you
Meanwhile, continuing to teach Harvard students is still fine?? thehill.com/business/561...
thehill.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Meanwhile, continuing to teach Harvard students is still fine?? thehill.com/business/561...
Sorry- correction - prior report was actually released 2020 after 2019 outcry
Note - excerpt from prior post was in the 2019 report Harvard commissioned on its relationship to Epstein. Now, in the face of a new public outcry, we get another response that they will investigate: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Sorry- correction - prior report was actually released 2020 after 2019 outcry
Note - excerpt from prior post was in the 2019 report Harvard commissioned on its relationship to Epstein. Now, in the face of a new public outcry, we get another response that they will investigate: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Note - excerpt from prior post was in the 2019 report Harvard commissioned on its relationship to Epstein. Now, in the face of a new public outcry, we get another response that they will investigate: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
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More specifically Summers is still, as of Tuesday night, the Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Charles W. Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Charles W. Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
More specifically Summers is still, as of Tuesday night, the Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Charles W. Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Charles W. Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Refresher on Summers' presidency: "The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics was established in 2003 by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers following an imaginative proposal by Jeffrey Epstein and Benedict Gross." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
Report Regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s Connections to Harvard
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I write today to update you on the full review of Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to the University, which I
www.harvard.edu
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Refresher on Summers' presidency: "The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics was established in 2003 by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers following an imaginative proposal by Jeffrey Epstein and Benedict Gross." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
Yes. All this. But you know who WashPo should have been publishing on this vile day in the White House? Luckily we can read @karenattiah.bsky.social, Khashoggi's editor & tireless champion in both life & death - over at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... & here karenattiah.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Yes. All this. But you know who WashPo should have been publishing on this vile day in the White House? Luckily we can read @karenattiah.bsky.social, Khashoggi's editor & tireless champion in both life & death - over at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... & here karenattiah.substack.com
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"things happen"
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"things happen"
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Thank you - for the smallest of gestures.
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thank you - for the smallest of gestures.
For anyone who dealt with sexual assault or harrasment at Harvard, this is one brutal news cycle.
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For anyone who dealt with sexual assault or harrasment at Harvard, this is one brutal news cycle.
Spare me. “Stepping back from public commitments” while continuing teaching as a professor at Harvard. Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Emails With Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Emails With Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Spare me. “Stepping back from public commitments” while continuing teaching as a professor at Harvard. Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Emails With Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
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The parlance in Econ that implies that gendered “preferences” that contribute to wage/major gaps come fully formed and not shaped by society is one of the things that motivated me to start this project
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The parlance in Econ that implies that gendered “preferences” that contribute to wage/major gaps come fully formed and not shaped by society is one of the things that motivated me to start this project
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
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🚨 Groundbreaking element of yesterday’s ruling in the case our coalition of Dutch and Palestinian organisations brought against the Dutch State: the court recognised the serious risk that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law:
www.somo.nl/dutch-court-...
www.somo.nl/dutch-court-...
Dutch court: Serious risk that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza - SOMO
The Court of Appeal in The Hague has concluded that there is a serious risk Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law. The Dutch State’s obligation to take mea...
www.somo.nl
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🚨 Groundbreaking element of yesterday’s ruling in the case our coalition of Dutch and Palestinian organisations brought against the Dutch State: the court recognised the serious risk that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law:
www.somo.nl/dutch-court-...
www.somo.nl/dutch-court-...
It's not too late to register! Join @rlswrites.bsky.social @jessicalwaters.bsky.social & me @americanuniversity tonight for what promises to be an illuminating conversation, traversing criminal law, judicial ethics & reproductive rights, with NYT Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon. Details below:
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It's not too late to register! Join @rlswrites.bsky.social @jessicalwaters.bsky.social & me @americanuniversity tonight for what promises to be an illuminating conversation, traversing criminal law, judicial ethics & reproductive rights, with NYT Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon. Details below:
On Veteran’s Day, this powerful op ed by @marknevitt.bsky.social “Wars don’t end when the last soldier comes home. They echo forward through time, written in our bodies, our soil, our water.” www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
Vietnam War still isn’t over for my father and other Agent Orange victims
Veterans Day should be both a time for Americans to honor the sacrifices made on their behalf and to recognize the true cost of war and its effects on service men and women.
www.ajc.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
On Veteran’s Day, this powerful op ed by @marknevitt.bsky.social “Wars don’t end when the last soldier comes home. They echo forward through time, written in our bodies, our soil, our water.” www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...