Dr Rebecca Sutton

Rebecca Sutton is a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow, where she convenes graduate courses on International Humanitarian Law (IHL), International Human Rights Law, and International Law and Security. Previously, Sutton held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, post-doctoral fellowships at the European University Institute and McGill University, and visiting fellowships at Melbourne Law School and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. She holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics, a JD from the University of Toronto, and an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS, University of London.

Sutton’s scholarship on “everyday” IHL, law and emotions, humanitarianism, legal pedagogy, children and youth appears in International Review of the Red Cross, Leiden Journal of International Law, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, African Affairs, Citizenship Studies, and Criminal Law Quarterly. Her book, The Humanitarian Civilian: How the Idea of Distinction Circulates Within and Beyond IHL, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Sutton has worked for humanitarian and human rights organizations and conducted research in Darfur, Sudan; South Sudan; South Africa; Central African Republic; Ghana; and Northern India. She continues to engage with practitioners as a Trainer and Facilitator on law, peacebuilding, and leadership topics. From 2024-2027 she is a Co-Investigator of the Beyond Compliance Consortium, an academic-practitioner collaboration funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

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