Roxana Vatanparast

Assistant Professor

Department

• Law School

Contact Information

• rvatanparast@law.capital.edu
• Capital University Law School

Biography

Dr. Roxana Vatanparast is an Assistant Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. Her scholarship examines the intersections of law, technology, and global governance. She brings an interdisciplinary lens to exploring the legal and governance implications of digital technologies and how they in turn reshape law and governance, with a particular interest in issues of democracy, inequality, and expertise.

Before joining Capital University Law School, Professor Vatanparast was a Fellow with the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Fellow with the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School. She currently serves as a Convenor of the European Society of International Law’s Working Group on International Law and Technology. In addition, Professor Vatanparast teaches a course on “Global Digital Law & Politics” at Harvard Summer School.

Professor Vatanparast’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal Online, and Juridikum – Austria’s Critical Law Review. She speaks regularly at international conferences about current issues around law and digital technology.

Professor Vatanparast is the author of the forthcoming book Cable Empires: Infrastructures and the Making of Empire, Technology and International Law, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Professor Vatanparast holds a PhD in Law & Institutions from the University of Turin, a LLM from the International University College of Turin, a JD from UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings), and a BA from UC San Diego. Prior to teaching, she practiced law for several years in private practice.