Mara Revkin

Mara Revkin is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale, where her research focuses on governance and lawmaking by armed groups. Her dissertation examines variation in civilian cooperation with and resistance against rebel governance through multi-method data collection on the case of the Islamic State. Mara holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Islamic Law & Civilization Research Fellow in 2016–17. Her legal scholarship focuses on the treatment of civilians who have lived in areas controlled and governed by terrorist groups under international humanitarian law and domestic material support laws. She has served as the lead researcher on Iraq and Syria for two projects on (1) child recruitment by armed groups and (2) post-IS transitional justice implemented by United Nations University, the research wing of the U.N. system.

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Terrorism

Iraq’s Harsh Approach to Punishing Islamic State ‘Collaborators’ Stands to Have Counterproductive Consequences

Mara Revkin Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 9:00 AM

Collective punishment of fighters, their families and civilians coerced into cooperating with the group is generating new grievances that could fuel a future insurgency.

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Law and Lawfare in the Islamic State

Mara Revkin Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 8:55 AM

If we take seriously the “state” in “Islamic State,” then we should also take seriously the institutional building blocks of that state, including its legal system. In fact, the Islamic State has weaponized law as a tool for state-building. Arguably, it is engaged in “lawfare.”

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