Mara R. Revkin

Forthcoming

The Dangerous Rise of Dual-Use Objects in War, Yale Law Journal (forthcoming) (with others)
Law and Violence in the Middle East, in Oxford Handbook on Law and Authoritarianism (Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman & Mark Tushnet, eds., forthcoming)

Works in Progress

Civilian Harm and Military Legitimacy in War: Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq (October 19, 2024) (with Benjamin Krick and Jonathan Petkun)

Articles & Essays

Reintegrating Iraqis Returning Home After Conflict: Lessons from Variation Between Four Communities (UNIDIR, MEAC Findings Report 41, 2025) (with others)
Evidence-Based Transitional Justice: Incorporating Public Opinion Into the Field, with New Data from Iraq and Ukraine, 133 Yale Law Journal 1582-1675 (2024) (with others)
No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq, 71 American Journal of Comparative Law 989-1032 (2024) (with Kristen Kao)
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of ‘Perpetual’ War in Iraq, in Iraq 20 Years On: Insider Reflections on the War and Its Aftermath (2023)
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts? , 25 International Studies Review, article viad029, 1-30 (2023) (with others)
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post-Conflict Attitudes Toward Enemy Collaborators, 67 American Journal of Political Science 358-373 (2023) (with Kristen Kao)
Understanding Multidimensional Fragility in South Sudan: A Baseline Study of Kajo-Keji, Yei, Bor, and Wau Counties (International Organization for Migration, 2023) (with others)
Roundtable: Police Reform in Global Perspective (Century International, 2022) (with others)
How Does Subnational Variation in Repression Affect Attitudes Toward Police? Evidence from Iraq’s 2019 Protests, 3 Violence: An International Journal 85-99 (2022)
Reflections on Authoritarianism, 36 Arab Law Quarterly 525-530 (2022)
When Do “Closed Camps” Become Prisons by Another Name?, 47 Yale Journal of International Law Online 57-70 (2022)
Can the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and International Humanitarian Law Join Forces?: Emerging Findings and Promising Directions (Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, 2021) (with others)
Competitive Governance and Displacement Decisions Under Rebel Rule: Evidence from the Islamic State in Iraq, 65 Journal of Conflict Resolution 46-80 (2021)
Insurgent Legality: State-Building and Failure of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, 115 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 297-302 (2021)
Pathways to Reintegration: Iraq Families Formerly Associated with ISIL (UNDP, 2021)
The Islamic State's Pattern of Sexual Violence: Ideology and Institutions, Policies and Practices , 6 Journal of Global Security Studies, article ogaa038, 1-20 (2021) (with Elisabeth Jean Wood)
After the Field, in Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences: A Guide to Human and Digital Security in Hostile Environments 69-88 (Jannis Grimm et al. eds., 2020) (with others)
Perceptions of Police, Security, and Governance in Iraq (International Organization for Migration & Yale Law School, Center for Global Legal Challenges, 2020) (with Olga Aymerich)
Perspectives on the Rebel Social Contract: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , 132 World Development, article 104981, 1-9 (2020) (with Ariel I. Ahram)
What Explains Taxation by Resource-Rich Rebels? Evidence from the Islamic State in Syria, 82 Journal of Politics 757-764 (2020)
West Mosul: Perceptions on Return and Reintegration Among Stayees, IDPs, and Returnees (International Organization for Migration, 2019) (with Delair Jabari)
After the Islamic State: Balancing Accountability and Reconciliation in Iraq (United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, 2018)
Islamic Law and Constitutions, in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law 779-818 (Anver M. Emon & Rumee Ahmed eds., 2018) (with Nathan J. Brown)
To Punish or to Pardon? Reintegrating Rebel Collaborators After Conflict in Iraq (The Program on Governance and Local Development at Gothenburg, Working Paper No. 17 (2018), 2018) (with Kristen Kao)
When Terrorists Govern: Protecting Civilians in Conflicts with State-Building Armed Groups, Harvard National Security Journal 100-145 (2018)
“I Am Nothing Without a Weapon”: Understanding Child Recruitment and Use by Armed Groups in Syria and Iraq, in Cradled by Conflict: Child Involvement with Armed Groups in Contemporary Conflict 104-139 (Siobhan O’Neil & Kato Van Broeckhoven eds., 2018)
A “Most Serious Crime”: Pakistan’s Unlawful Use of the Death Penalty (Justice Project Pakistan and the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, 2016) (with others)
The Legal Foundations of the Islamic State (The Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, Analysis Paper no. 21, 2016)
Deprivatizing Islamic Law: An Argument for Judicial Interpretation of Shari'a in American Courts, 47 Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 246-266 (2015)
Triadic Legal Pluralism in North Sinai: A Case Study of State, Shari'a, and 'Urf Courts in Conflict and Cooperation, 13 UCLA Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern Law 21-59 (2014)
Egypt’s Constitution in Question, 5 Middle East Law & Governance 331-343 (2013)
Middle Eastern Law, 9 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 405-433 (2013) (with Chibli Mallat)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

The Israel-Hamas Conflict: International Law, Accountability, and Challenges in Modern Warfare, Judicature International (October 1, 2024)
The Progressive Case for American Power: Retrenchment Would Do More Harm Than Good, 103 Foreign Affairs (June 18, 2024) (with others)
How the Iraqi Crackdown on the Islamic State May Actually Increase Support for the Islamic State, Washington Post (January 7, 2019) (with Kristen Kao)

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