Mostafa Taherkhani is a Ph.D. candidate at Sciences Po Law School, under the supervision of Jean d’Aspremont. His project engages with the conceptual framing of fictional archè (foundation, origin, first principle) in international legal theories.

Before joining Sciences Po, Mostafa completed his first Ph.D. at Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran (SBU), Tehran, with a thesis that offered a new reading of French philosopher Jacques Derrida's juridico-political thoughts. 

During his PhD studies, Mostafa has been a visiting PhD student at the Cambridge Faculty of Law (2025), LSE Law School (2024), and Cardozo School of Law (2020).

At Sciences Po, Mostafa teaches different undergraduate courses including Law & Anarchism, and Theories of International Law. His current research interest is primarily oriented to legal theory and international law, especially to visions coming from post-structural, anarchist, and Marxist literature.

• Mostafa Taherkhani. Accepting or Transgressing the Failure: Derrida and Agamben on Kafka’s "Before the Law". Law and Literature, 2024, 22 p. ⟨10.1080/1535685x.2024.2331374⟩. ⟨hal-04571475⟩
• Mostafa Taherkhani, S. Mohamed Ghari. S. Fatemi. Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction of Law. Law Research Quarterly, 2023, 25 (100), pp.59 - 85. ⟨10.29252/JLR.2021.222358.1934⟩. ⟨hal-03940086⟩
• Mostafa Taherkhani, Seyed Mohammad Ghari S Fatemi. Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction of Law. Legal Research Quarterly, 2021. ⟨hal-03941712⟩