Rebecca Sutton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Edinburgh Law School. Her three-year Leverhulme project is entitled ‘Frontline Land: The Everyday Life of International Humanitarian Law (IHL)’. The project explores the emotions and perceptual judgments of actors who are expected to implement legal rules in armed conflicts. The first strand of the project explores the interplay of law and emotions in humanitarian negotiation, and the second strand considers the role of emotions in IHL pedagogy.

Before joining Edinburgh Law School, Rebecca was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC-funded Individualization of War project; she was based at the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the University of Oxford. Rebecca received her PhD in International Law from the London School of Economics in 2018.

Outside of academia, Rebecca continues to build on over a decade of professional experience working with humanitarian and human rights organizations globally.