Rachele Marconi is a postdoctoral researcher in International law and Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Macerata. Since April 2026, she holds a Research Fellowship for Postdocs from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, hosted by Professor Heike Krieger at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Rachele Marconi’s research focuses on international humanitarian law, gender justice, and the challenges posed by historical atrocities and contemporary conflicts. Her methodology combines doctrinal analysis with the interdisciplinary lens of feminist and Third World approaches. She has published her research in leading journals, including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the International Criminal Law Review, QIL Questions of International Law. She has also been visiting fellow at prominent academic institutions, such as the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht and the Institut de Recherche en Droit International et Européen de la Sorbonne of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

During her 18-month fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, she will develop her research project on “The Principle of Non-Discrimination in Occupied Territory”, which investigates the international legal framework for interpreting and applying the principle of non-discrimination in contexts of military occupation, by considering the relevant, intersecting legal regimes: ius ad bellum, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law. Drawing on the analysis of state practice and opinio iuris, treaty provisions, international and domestic case law, national military manuals, and soft-law instruments on non-discrimination, her project intends to propose non-discrimination as a foundational principle of occupation law.

By benefiting from Professor Heike Krieger’s invaluable expertise in international humanitarian law, her research aims to contribute to assessing the scope of the occupier’s powers and duties, and to entering the still highly controversial debate on the interplay between international humanitarian law and human rights law.