Rachel Griffin is a PhD candidate and lecturer in law at Sciences Po Law School, where she is researching European social media regulation and its implications for structural social inequalities under the supervision of Profs. Severine Dusollier and Beatriz Botero Arcila.

Her research draws on a range of interdisciplinary literature to understand how structural inequalities manifest in the context of social media, and is informed by perspectives from law and political economy, critical race theory, and queer and feminist legal theory. She has also worked as a research assistant at the Digital, Governance & Sovereignty Chair within Sciences Po’s School of Public Affairs, and co-authored (with Prof. Botero Arcila) a report on current issues in social media regulation for the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee. Her recent publications are available here.

Rachel teaches a regular seminar course on social media law at Sciences Po Reims and has also taught a course on platform governance in the EU at Sciences Po Paris, as well as guest lecturing (with Naomi Appelman) at the IViR Summer School on Platform Regulation at the University of Amsterdam.

Rachel has a first-class BA in law from the University of Oxford and an MA in public policy from Sciences Po and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, where she completed her master’s thesis on the German Network Enforcement Act.

Social media and structural injustice: A critical analysis of EU platform regulation.

• Rachel Griffin, Riccardo Fornasari. Risky business? Corporate risk management obligations in sustainability due diligence and digital platform regulation. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2025, pp.1-19. ⟨10.1017/err.2025.10064⟩. ⟨hal-05392539⟩
• Rachel Griffin. The Politics of Algorithmic Censorship: Automated Moderation and its Regulation. James Garratt. Music and the Politics of Censorship: From the Fascist Era to the Digital Age, Brepols, In press. ⟨hal-04325979⟩
• Jelena Belic, Matthew Canfield, Rachel Griffin, Henning Lahmann, Barrie Sander. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms: Symposium Introduction. 2024. ⟨hal-04617256⟩
• Rachel Griffin, Erik Stallman. A Systemic Approach to Implementing the DSA’s Human-in-the-Loop Requirement. 2024, ⟨10.59704/b2a7a2ee0ff8bd31⟩. ⟨hal-04517093⟩
• Rachel Griffin. The Heteronormative Male Gaze: Experiences of Sexual Content Moderation among Queer Instagram Users in Berlin. International Journal of Communication, 2024, 18, pp.1266-1288. ⟨hal-04617175⟩
• Rachel Griffin. The Heteronormative Male Gaze: Experiences of Sexual Content Moderation among Queer Instagram Users in Berlin. International journal of communications, network and system sciences, 2024, 18, pp.1266-1288. ⟨hal-04517009⟩
• Rachel Griffin. From brand safety to suitability: advertisers in platform governance. Internet Policy Review, 2023, 12 (3), ⟨10.14763/2023.3.1716⟩. ⟨hal-04299799⟩
• Beatriz Botero Arcila, Rachel Griffin. Social media platforms and challenges for democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs Directorate-General for Internal Policies PE 743.400 -April 2023. European Parliament. 2023, pp.154. ⟨hal-04320778⟩
• Rachel Griffin. TikTok’s Confidence-Destroying Bold Glamour Filter is the Logical Product of Platforms Built for Consumerism. 2023. ⟨hal-04342017⟩
• Rachel Griffin. Climate Breakdown as a Systemic Risk in the Digital Services Act. 2023, ⟨10.48462/opus4-5075⟩. ⟨hal-04342010⟩
• Rachel Griffin. The Law and Political Economy of Online Visibility. Market Justice in the Digital Services Act. Technology and Regulation, 2023, 2023, pp.69-79. ⟨10.26116/techreg.2023.007⟩. ⟨hal-04299819⟩
• Rachel Griffin. Rethinking Rights in Social Media Governance: Human Rights, Ideology and Inequality. European law open, 2023, 2 (1), pp.30-56. ⟨10.1017/elo.2023.7⟩. ⟨hal-03940721⟩
• Rachel Griffin. Public and Private Power in Social Media Governance: Multistakeholderism, the Rule of Law and Democratic Accountability. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022, ⟨10.2139/ssrn.4190500⟩. ⟨hal-03940697⟩
• Rachel Griffin. Does the Digital Services Act Have Anything to Say About the ‘TikTokification of Instagram’?. 2022. ⟨hal-03940772⟩
• Rachel Griffin. Tackling Discrimination in Targeted Advertising. 2022. ⟨hal-03940781⟩
• Rachel Griffin. A progressive view of digital constitutionalism. 2022. ⟨hal-03940791⟩
• Rachel Griffin. Rethinking Rights in Social Media Governance. 2022. ⟨hal-03940983⟩
• Rachel Griffin. The Bronner report on disinformation hints at Macron’s political priorities. 2022. ⟨hal-03940962⟩
• Rachel Griffin. The Sanitised Platform. JIPITEC - Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, 2022, 1 (13), pp.36-52. ⟨10.2139/ssrn.4007098⟩. ⟨hal-03586779⟩
• Rachel Griffin. New School Speech Regulation and Online Hate Speech: A Case Study of Germany's NetzDG. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021, ⟨10.2139/ssrn.3920386⟩. ⟨hal-03586791⟩
• Rachel Griffin. French feminist influencers are taking on Instagram’s discriminatory content moderation. 2021. ⟨hal-03940958⟩
• Rachel Griffin. Metaphors matter: Why we shouldn’t call the Facebook Oversight Board a court. 2021. ⟨hal-03940949⟩