Earlier this month, I presented my recent article ‘ A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law’ at a seminar on EU anti-discrimination law for lecturers and university professors organised by the Academy of European Law (ERA). This seminar was organised at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain on 2-3 June. The paper that […]
Op 16 mei 2025 werd het eerste boek over feministische en queer onderzoeksmethoden in het recht uit de Lage Landen (België en Nederland) gepubliceerd. De redacteurs van dit boek (Dr. Pieter Cannoot, Dr. Elise Goossens, en Marie Spinoy) trachten om de vertaalslag van Anglo-Amerikaanse werk hierrond te maken naar de context van de Lage Landen. […]
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of attending a workshop titled ‘Critical Approaches to European Human Rights‘ at the Hertie School in Berlin. This workshop, on 17 January 2025, was co-organised by Dr. Jens Theilen, Dr. Corina Heri, and Dr. Esra Demir-Gürsel as part of the Framing Reality and Normativity in European Human Rights […]
The 28th Ius Commune Conference took place in Utrecht on November 28-29, 2024. I had the opportunity to present in the workshop ‘Shared Responsibilities for the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe’ on 28 November. My presentation was based on my paper titled “A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law“. The paper’s abstract […]
As part of their Talking about Books series, the Maastricht University Library asked me to choose a book that has been instrumental for my development as a legal scholar. I decided to talk about the book ‘Critical Race Theory: Key Writings that Formed a Movement’, edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw and others. This book has been […]
Earlier this month, I participated in the ICON-S annual conference. This year’s conference theme was “The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence” and it took place in Madrid, Spain at the IE University Law School between 8-10 July 2024. I participated in a book roundtable for an upcoming book on Race and European human rights […]
The last couple of months, I have been involved in the Intersectional Rewrites book project. This book project aims to rewrite several European Court of Human Rights judgments from an intersectional perspective. I am rewriting the case Benkharbouche and Janah v the United Kingdom. This case concerns domestic workers being exploited and harassed in a […]
For the October 2023 edition of UMagazine, I was interviewed about my Ph.D. research on intersectional discrimination in EU equality law, and the work as one of the 12 Faces of Science nominated by KNAW in 2023. You can read the magazine here: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/file/umagazine-oct-2023spreadpdf Or read the interview here: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/law-is-not-neutral-nozizwe-dube
What does my research on intersectional discrimination in EU equality law entail, and where does my interest in the topic stem from? Read more about that in the Maastricht University Faculty of Law highlights of 2022: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/maastricht-law-faculty-focus-1
Utrecht University hosted the 10th Annual Conference 2023 of the Berkeley Center On Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law from 28-30 June. This was my first academic conference, and I had the opportunity to present my paper on the role of comparators in cases of intersectional discrimination. I also had the pleasure of moderating the plenary […]
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