NOZIZWE DUBE

ABOUT

NOZIZWE DUBE

Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute, EUI (Italy)

PhD candidate in EU law, Maastricht University (the Netherlands)

Recognised student, Oxford University (Trinity term 2025, United Kingdom)

Master of Laws, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

Bachelor of Laws, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

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I am a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

In my PhD research project, done at Maastricht University, I conduct a Critical Race Feminist analysis of EU equality law. This research seeks to analyse how the EU equality law framework facilitates or frustrates the recognition of intersectional discrimination and the legal subjectivity of multiply marginalised groups. To this end, my research encompasses comparative research with the jurisprudence of the Council of Europe (the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee on Social Rights); the US Supreme Court, and the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

awards

Honourable Mention, Ius Commune Prize (2025)

One of the 12 Faces of Science (2023)

  • Awarding institution: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW)

Award for Academic Excellence (2021)

  • Awarding institution: Venice International University (Italy)

Young European of 2017

  • Reason for award: my youth rights and human rights advocacy, particularly for (young) refugees within the EU
  • Awarding institution: Schwarzkopf Stiftung

MY expertise

  • EU law
  • Equality law (EU, Council of Europe, South Africa, United States of America
  • European fundamental rights law
  • Critical Race Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Legal Theory
  • Intersectionality
  • International human rights law
  • Belgian Public Law

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