Dr. Michele Tedeschini is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "Constestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS). He earned a doctoral degree from SOAS University of London. His work focuses on the historiography of human rights, on the interplay between public international law and the global political economy, as well as on psychoanalytic theory. Prior to joining SCRIPTS, Michele was a residential fellow at the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School. His publications include Unclosure: The International Law of Seabed Mining and the Systemic Cycles of Capital Accumulation and Human Rights after Fukuyama.

Research Interests

• Human rights
• Political economy
• Public international law
• International criminal law
• Psychoanalytic approaches to the social sciences

Current Research Projects at SCRIPTS

Michele works with the project "De-Centering Human Rights: Liberalism, Human Rights, and the Global South" in an organizational capacity.

Book chapters

Tedeschini, M. 2022: "Human Rights After Fukuyama”, in: McNeilly, K. and Warwick, B. (eds), The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law, Gordonsville: Hart Publishing, pp. 141-158.

Tedeschini, M. 2021: “Historical Base and Legal Superstructure: Reading Contingency and Necessity in the Tadić Challenge”, in: Venzke, I. and Heller, K.J. (eds), Situating Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of a Different Law, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 129-144.

Journal Articles

Tedeschini, M. 2022: “Unclosure: The International Law of Seabed Mining and the Systemic Cycles of Capital Accumulation” in: London Review of International Law, 10:2, pp. 265-292.

Tedeschini, M. 2019: “Human Rights as a Limit to Utopian Thinking?” in: MenschenRechtsMagazin, 24:1, pp. 12-23.

Tedeschini, M. 2015: “Complementarity in Practice: The ICC’s Inconsistent Approach in the Gaddafi and Al-Senussi Admissibility Decisions” in: Amsterdam Law Forum, 7:1, pp. 76-97.