Associate Professor in Human Rights Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham (UK)
Co-director, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham (UK)
Dr Mando Rachovitsa is an Associate Professor in Human Rights Law at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. She is also the co-director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham. Mando joined Nottingham in 2023. Before that she was an Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2016-2023) and an Assistant Professor of International Law at Qatar University (2013-2016).
Mando has a background in international law as well as international and regional human rights law.
She has worked extensively on comparative human rights law bringing together the case law of the 3 regional courts of human rights (European, Inter-American and African).
While continuing working on comparative human rights law, for the past 10 years, her research interests primarily lie in bringing her background and expertise in the intersection of human rights law and technology.
Mando is currently working on:
You can read more about her publications here
Rachovitsa, ‘Designing the Technological and Legal Fabric of Digital Sovereignty for Critical Governmental Data and Essential Services Extraterritorially: The “Data Embassy” Model’ (2026) 63 Computer Law & Security Review 106409
Rachovitsa & Johann, ‘The Use of AI in the Digital Welfare State and Lessons Learned from the SyRI Case’ (2022) 22 Human Rights Law Review 1-15
Rachovitsa, ‘Engineering and Lawyering Privacy by Design: Understanding Online Privacy both as a Technical and an International Human Rights Issue in the Face of Mass Surveillance’ (2016) 24 International Journal of Law & Information Technology 374-399
Since 2025, Mando is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Völkerrechtsblog
In 2013 Mando founded the Qatari Branch of the International Law Association, and she served as its elected secretary (2013-2016)
A fun read on a counterintuitive and (almost) funny guide on teaching in non-Western Universities
In 2017, Mando was nominated and elected as the Lecturer of the Year at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen. She was the first woman and first international member of staff and non-Dutch speaker to receive this award in the Faculty of Law. The problem is that she still is the only woman and international member of staff and non-Dutch speaker who has received this award.