David Rischel

David Rischel is a normative political theorist and a teaching fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick in 2024. His work revolves around normative questions to do with territory and jurisdiction, in particular: what, if anything, can justify the rights of states to rule their territories? Under what circumstances is the secession of sub-state regions from their parent states permissible? Why is it wrong for a state to annex another state (when it is wrong)? And what does a fair distribution of land look like?  
At the Norwegian Nobel Institute, David will be investigating how jurisdictional rights – the rights to make, adjudicate, and enforce the law – should be distributed in cyberspace, and what values should guide this effort. More specifically, he will be investigating issues that have to do with the governance and protection of data, including questions such as: under what circumstances is it problematic for individuals to be subject to overlapping jurisdictions in regard to the governance and protection of their data? Should the international legal prohibition on extraterritorial enforcement be operative in cyberspace? And can we even make sense of this prohibition, given the absence of clear territorial demarcations? 

Selected Publications:

Rischel, D. (2024). Property, nature, and the freedom to roam. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2024.2387995