Roxana Vatanparast

Excited to share that I’ve signed a contract today for my first monograph, ‘Cable Empires: Infrastructures and the Making of Empire, Technology, and International Law’ with @CambridgeUP! 🎉

The Digital Divide in International Cyber Law #ILW25 With: Christine Carpenter, Jennifer Tridgell, Fabian Rogers, Roxana Vatanparast, and Rosey Wong. Register for International Law Weekend 2025 here: ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-regis…

Unfortunately a still relevant piece I wrote 17 (!) years after I wrote it on the invocation of the preemptive use of force doctrine in relation to Iran's uranium enrichment program. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

What does “Evacuate Tehran” even mean? Tehran is home to 10 million human beings — it holds the country’s critical infrastructure, hospitals, government institutions, kindergartens, primary schools, universities, laboratories, homes, prisons, factories, industrial zones employing thousands of workers, markets, stores, bridges, roads, the impoverished, waste collectors, child laborers, street vendors, women who are the sole providers for their families, journalists, cafés, parks, and amusement centers. Which of them are we meant to carry on our shoulders to save from death and devastation? Do not destroy my city. End this war. #NoToWar #Tehran #Iran

Massive explosions in the East of Tehran.

✍️ We spoke with civilians in Tehran about the human costs of war, including airspace closure challenges. Their stories reveal the impact on ordinary people. Read here: 👇 livingintehran.com/2025/06/17/ira…

I also discuss alternative governance structures and institutions on CMI that play an important role in the distribution of rights and duties, incl. voluntary cooperation arrangements, private law regimes, and increased securitization, surveillance & militarization of the seas.

Pre-print of a short new piece of mine on critical marine infrastructure (CMI) is up! I outline some of the international legal principles applicable to CMI generally, focusing on the Law of the Sea, laws applicable to CMI damage, and their limitations.  papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Glad to have had the opportunity to review The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power, for the journal Regulation & Governance. Pre-print available on @SSRN. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Great hybrid-conversation at the Law & Society Association conference about our book (co-ed by @g_sullivan @Dimitri_VdM & me) Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule, forthcoming open access with @CUP_Law. 🙏to Gavin & to @mattccanfield for comments.

@AsafLubin @OUPLaw Exciting!

The long wait is over. 2025 is going to be a great year. Coming soon with @OUPLaw.

"The best place to view Los Angeles of the next millennium is from the ruins of its alternative future." Mike Davis Absolutely heartbreaking to watch my hometown burn from afar. 💔 Praying for everyone in LA.

Simulacra & Simulation

Harvard Summer School gave me an opportunity to discuss my class, Global Digital Law & Politics. I encourage any students interested in the course to reach out with any questions. Excited to teach this class again next summer! @HarvardSummer youtube.com/watch?v=2ag8I5…

This is the level of confidence I aspire to lol

🆕🎥The recording of the Keynote Lecture by @ProfChesterman and the Opening Discussion with @KaterinaGovina & @roxanav41, held during the 2024 ESIL Annual Conference in Vilnius, is now available as an ESIL Lecture! 👏🏻 #ESIL2024 Watch it here ➡️youtube.com/watch?v=xc5tOh…

@corinneblalock Just learned this a couple days ago myself

@DanEricRohde I am so sorry for your loss.

Apologies to all for being unresponsive. Just over 3 weeks ago, my brother John went into hospital. It was completely unexpected. He passed last night at 6:06pm. He was a musician, a teacher, a priest, and a beam of positivity everywhere he went. Still can't believe this is real!

My latest via @asilorg: "Both law & tech contribute to inequality and injustice and have long historical connections to imperialism and violence... Nevertheless, their effects are not pre-determined—law & tech are critical sites of political contestation." bit.ly/4dwXpq3

@chris4short_ @Cambridge_Uni @Dept_of_POLIS Amazing! Congrats Chris. Keep me posted on what you are doing and your research. All the best wishes.