Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi

Assistant Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School.

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi’s current research is situated in the field of digital security law and governance. Her research reflects on technolegal modes of governance and their evolution/proliferation in a context where new forms of transnational risk, risk-anticipation strategies and technology are in play. Her expertise in public international law, legal theory, fundamental rights and criminal law allows her to explore these technolegal phenomena beyond rigid disciplinary boundaries. Her book, Drones and International Law: A Techno-Legal Machinery was published with Cambridge University Press in July 2023.

Rebecca is an Editor for the Legal theory section of the Leiden Journal of International Law, a co-founder of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, and a board member of the Women in International Law Network. She is an Associate Researcher at the TMC Asser Institute and at the International Center for Counter-Terrorism. Prior to joining Sciences Po, she served as a Lecturer in International Law and the LLM and MA Programme Director at the University of Manchester.

Rebecca holds a PhD from the European University Institute and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

• Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Andrea Leiter, Delphine Dogot. 2nd Episode: New Modes of Law-Making and Resistance in the Digital Age. 2024. ⟨hal-04741467⟩
• Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. The Legal Fabrique of Global Security Governance. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2024, 23 (1), pp.30. ⟨10.2139/ssrn.4652568⟩. ⟨hal-04403583⟩
• Eliana Cusato, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Sofia Stolk, Renske Vos. In praise of multiplicity: Suspending the desire to change the world. Leiden Journal of International Law, 2023, pp.1-5. ⟨10.1017/S0922156523000638⟩. ⟨hal-04461525⟩
• Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. Drones and International Law. A Techno-Legal Machinery. Cambridge University Press, 1, pp.258, 2023, 9781009346559. ⟨10.1017/9781009346603⟩. ⟨hal-04282843⟩
• Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. Remappings and Visibility: How Power Circulates and the Conditions of Resistance in the Digital World. Political Geography, In press, ⟨10.2139/ssrn.4649244⟩. ⟨hal-04378628⟩
• Geoff Gordon, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Dimitri van den Meerssche. The Critical Subject and the Subject of Critique in International Law and Technology. AJIL Unbound, 2023, 117, pp.134-138. ⟨10.1017/aju.2023.20⟩. ⟨hal-04282897⟩
• Pascal Beauvais, Andrea Fabrizi, Francis Habouzit, Maxime Lassalle, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. Droit européen des droits de l'Homme (CEDH). Revue pénitentiaire et de droit pénal, 2016, 2016 (4), pp.953-966. ⟨hal-01736495⟩
• Rachel Lucas, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. L'ONU et les droits de l'homme. Après-demain : journal mensuel de documentation politique, 2015, 35 (3), pp.33-35. ⟨hal-01783033⟩