Raphaële Xenidis

Assistant Professor in European Law

Raphaële’s current research focuses on European discrimination and equality law. In the framework of her Ph.D. dissertation, she has worked on issues of intersectionality and intersectional discrimination. Her Marie Curie postdoctoral project explored problems of algorithmic discrimination, bias in automated decision-making systems and data-driven inequality.

Raphaële is trained as a political scientist and a lawyer. She holds a PhD in law from the European University Institute. She received Master’s degrees from Sciences Po Lille in France, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Germany and SAIS Europe, Johns Hopkins University in Italy, as well as a LL.M. in Comparative, European and International laws from the European University Institute. Raphaële has also been a Fulbright-Schuman visiting researcher at Columbia Law School in New York.

Before joining Sciences Po, Raphaële was a permanent lecturer in EU law at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh, a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht Law School and a member of the coordination team of the European Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination Law. Raphaële is also a Global Research Fellow at iCourts at the University of Copenhagen.

• Raphaële Xenidis. From religious neutrality to religious discrimination in the public and the private sector: Commune d’Ans and S.C.R.L.. Common Market Law Review, 2025, 62 (2), pp.513 - 558. ⟨hal-05038441⟩
• Raphaële Xenidis. When Computers Say No: Towards a Legal Response to Algorithmic Discrimination in Europe. Bartosz Brożek; Przemysław Pałka; Olia Kanevskaia. Research Handbook on Law and Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.222-234, 2024, 9781803921310. ⟨10.2139/ssrn.4735345⟩. ⟨hal-04526428⟩
• Hilde Weerts, Raphaële Xenidis, Fabien Tarissan, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Mykola Pechenizkiy. The Neutrality Fallacy: When Algorithmic Fairness Interventions are (Not) Positive Action. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), pp.2060 - 2070, 2024, ⟨10.1145/3630106.3659025⟩. ⟨hal-04565960⟩
• Raphaële Xenidis. Beyond bias: algorithmic machines, discrimination law and the analogy trap. Transnational Legal Theory, 2024, pp.1-35. ⟨10.1080/20414005.2024.2307200⟩. ⟨hal-04496488⟩
• Hilde Weerts, Raphaële Xenidis, Fabien Tarissan, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Mykola Pechenizkiy. The Neutrality Fallacy: When Algorithmic Fairness Interventions are (Not) Positive Action. FAccT '24: The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM, pp.2060-2070, 2024, ⟨10.1145/3630106.3659025⟩. ⟨hal-04871992⟩
• Birte Böök, Susanne Burri, Alexandra Timmer, Raphaële Xenidis. A comparative analysis of gender equality law in Europe 2023. European Union. 2024. ⟨hal-04634702⟩
• Raphaële Xenidis. Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Property: The Human Rights Dimension of Intellectual Property. Alberto Quintavalla; Jeroen Temperman. Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2023, 9780192882486. ⟨hal-04634615⟩
• Hilde Weerts, Raphaële Xenidis, Fabien Tarissan, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Mykola Pechenizkiy. Algorithmic Unfairness through the Lens of EU Non-Discrimination Law. FAccT Conference 2023, ACM, Jun 2023, Chicago, France. pp.805-816, ⟨10.1145/3593013.3594044⟩. ⟨hal-04244693⟩