Nozizwe Dube
@nozizwe.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in EU Law, conducting a critical race feminist analysis of EU equality law
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@nozizwe.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Equality law is an inherently comparative framework, as a claimant must compare themselves to a comparator to establish a presumption of discrimination.
What types of comparisons are used in equality claims? Is relying on comparators desirable in equality law?
My piece discussing this is out:
What types of comparisons are used in equality claims? Is relying on comparators desirable in equality law?
My piece discussing this is out:
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Building on Iyiola Solanke’s EUI Black History Month Lecture that highlights the need to decolonise EU law, I argue in this WP that uncovering the allegiance between EU law, coloniality & Whiteness must be at the heart of any social justice enterprise to decolonise EU law:
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Building on Iyiola Solanke’s EUI Black History Month Lecture that highlights the need to decolonise EU law, I argue in this WP that uncovering the allegiance between EU law, coloniality & Whiteness must be at the heart of any social justice enterprise to decolonise EU law:
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
In I.C. t Moldavië oordeelde het EHRM dat de arbeidsuitbuiting & seksueel misbruik van een vrouw met een intellectuele handicap discriminatoir was. In deze annotatie neem ik de manier waarop het EHRM deze intersectionele discriminatie benaderde onder de loep:
#intersectionaliteit
bit.ly/4qBGCtQ
#intersectionaliteit
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October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
In I.C. t Moldavië oordeelde het EHRM dat de arbeidsuitbuiting & seksueel misbruik van een vrouw met een intellectuele handicap discriminatoir was. In deze annotatie neem ik de manier waarop het EHRM deze intersectionele discriminatie benaderde onder de loep:
#intersectionaliteit
bit.ly/4qBGCtQ
#intersectionaliteit
bit.ly/4qBGCtQ
Building on Iyiola Solanke’s EUI Black History Month Lecture that highlights the need to decolonise EU law, I argue in this WP that uncovering the allegiance between EU law, coloniality & Whiteness must be at the heart of any social justice enterprise to decolonise EU law:
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Building on Iyiola Solanke’s EUI Black History Month Lecture that highlights the need to decolonise EU law, I argue in this WP that uncovering the allegiance between EU law, coloniality & Whiteness must be at the heart of any social justice enterprise to decolonise EU law:
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
hdl.handle.net/1814/93725
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Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with our researcher Davide Tomaselli.
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Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with Davide Tomaselli
In this interview, EUI Law researcher Davide Tomaselli explores European asylum law through a queer perspective Drawing on legal practice and political theory
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October 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with our researcher Davide Tomaselli.
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
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🆕 New blog by Nozizwe Dube on #intersectional discrimination in #EUequalitylaw, presented at the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law Conference.
🔗 Read the full blog post here: www.humanrightshere.com/post/the-r-e...
📷: Nozizwe Dube
🔗 Read the full blog post here: www.humanrightshere.com/post/the-r-e...
📷: Nozizwe Dube
September 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🆕 New blog by Nozizwe Dube on #intersectional discrimination in #EUequalitylaw, presented at the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law Conference.
🔗 Read the full blog post here: www.humanrightshere.com/post/the-r-e...
📷: Nozizwe Dube
🔗 Read the full blog post here: www.humanrightshere.com/post/the-r-e...
📷: Nozizwe Dube
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Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.
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138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’
138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’
Als de Vlaamse regering alsnog in beroep gaat tegen het vonnis over wapendoorvoer naar Israël, gaat ze eigenlijk in beroep tegen haar eigen regels, stellen 138 juristen in deze open brief.
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July 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’
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I am genuinely happy to share that my first big publication is now available online!
"'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants" is the result of two years of research, writing, reflection, discussion, rethinking.
Now I can't wait to debate it!
"'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants" is the result of two years of research, writing, reflection, discussion, rethinking.
Now I can't wait to debate it!
‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum
Abstract. This article addresses the consequences that SOGIESC claims of asylum have on international refugee law and its fundamental distinction between ‘
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July 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I am genuinely happy to share that my first big publication is now available online!
"'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants" is the result of two years of research, writing, reflection, discussion, rethinking.
Now I can't wait to debate it!
"'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants" is the result of two years of research, writing, reflection, discussion, rethinking.
Now I can't wait to debate it!
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and present my work on models of judicial review in equality jurisprudence at the EuConst Symposium.
I am grateful to the other participants and discussants, in particular Prof. Silvia Suteu, for their insightful feedback and comments.
I am grateful to the other participants and discussants, in particular Prof. Silvia Suteu, for their insightful feedback and comments.
This Monday and Tuesday we met at Luiss in Rome for the 2025 EuConst Symposium, our yearly event for young European constitutional law scholars. We listened to many brilliant presentations on a wide range of European and comparative constitutional law topics.
July 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and present my work on models of judicial review in equality jurisprudence at the EuConst Symposium.
I am grateful to the other participants and discussants, in particular Prof. Silvia Suteu, for their insightful feedback and comments.
I am grateful to the other participants and discussants, in particular Prof. Silvia Suteu, for their insightful feedback and comments.
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Happy to see this piece published on @verfassungsblog.de!
Together with Narin Nosrati we felt the need to reflect about the way we, as European legal scholars, interpreted the evolution of the CJEU's position in some gender-based asylum cases from last year.
verfassungsblog.de/ecj-western-...
Together with Narin Nosrati we felt the need to reflect about the way we, as European legal scholars, interpreted the evolution of the CJEU's position in some gender-based asylum cases from last year.
verfassungsblog.de/ecj-western-...
Whose Values?
verfassungsblog.de
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Happy to see this piece published on @verfassungsblog.de!
Together with Narin Nosrati we felt the need to reflect about the way we, as European legal scholars, interpreted the evolution of the CJEU's position in some gender-based asylum cases from last year.
verfassungsblog.de/ecj-western-...
Together with Narin Nosrati we felt the need to reflect about the way we, as European legal scholars, interpreted the evolution of the CJEU's position in some gender-based asylum cases from last year.
verfassungsblog.de/ecj-western-...
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My working paper on the Danish public housing law case is out! In response to these colonial style compulsory rehousing rules will the CJEU define a 'racial group',?
www.coleurope.eu/sites/defaul...
www.coleurope.eu/sites/defaul...
www.coleurope.eu
June 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
My working paper on the Danish public housing law case is out! In response to these colonial style compulsory rehousing rules will the CJEU define a 'racial group',?
www.coleurope.eu/sites/defaul...
www.coleurope.eu/sites/defaul...
I recently presented my paper "A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law" at the Academy of European Law (ERA) Seminar on Current Reflections on EU Anti-Discrimination Law in Madrid.
You can read the paper my presentation is based on here: kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArtic...
You can read the paper my presentation is based on here: kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArtic...
June 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I recently presented my paper "A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law" at the Academy of European Law (ERA) Seminar on Current Reflections on EU Anti-Discrimination Law in Madrid.
You can read the paper my presentation is based on here: kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArtic...
You can read the paper my presentation is based on here: kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArtic...
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Pleased to share my new article! I reflect on what our responsibility is, as legal academics, to students experiencing racism and how we can surface the ways racism plays out "politely" such that the law school feels like a space to which they cannot fully belong.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools
This article unpacks the nature of racialised (un)belonging experienced by law students – why for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. F...
www.tandfonline.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Pleased to share my new article! I reflect on what our responsibility is, as legal academics, to students experiencing racism and how we can surface the ways racism plays out "politely" such that the law school feels like a space to which they cannot fully belong.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Op 16 mei vond de boeklancering van 'Feministische en queer onderzoeksmethoden in het recht' plaats.
Marie Spinoy, Elise Goossens, & Pieter Cannoot brachten auteurs samen om over de bijzondere methodologische uitdagingen bij de toepassing van feministische & queer onderzoeksmethoden te schrijven.
Marie Spinoy, Elise Goossens, & Pieter Cannoot brachten auteurs samen om over de bijzondere methodologische uitdagingen bij de toepassing van feministische & queer onderzoeksmethoden te schrijven.
May 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Op 16 mei vond de boeklancering van 'Feministische en queer onderzoeksmethoden in het recht' plaats.
Marie Spinoy, Elise Goossens, & Pieter Cannoot brachten auteurs samen om over de bijzondere methodologische uitdagingen bij de toepassing van feministische & queer onderzoeksmethoden te schrijven.
Marie Spinoy, Elise Goossens, & Pieter Cannoot brachten auteurs samen om over de bijzondere methodologische uitdagingen bij de toepassing van feministische & queer onderzoeksmethoden te schrijven.
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“There are places in this world where law protects you like a second skin. It walks with you into offices, hospitals, airports, schools, police stations &c. &c. It makes people speak gently to you. It ensures that your name is recorded properly….” @davidyambio.bsky.social
I do not write this to provoke guilt. I have no interest in pity. Pity is cheap and temporary. I write because memory must become a mirror. I write because if we do not say what happened, the world will keep saying nothing happened.
www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/eu-law-...
www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/eu-law-...
EU Law and Life of Us the Black Migrants
Essay by David YambioThe Disappearing LawThere are places in this world where law protects you like a second skin. It walks with you into offices, hospitals, airports, schools, police stations &c. &c....
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May 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“There are places in this world where law protects you like a second skin. It walks with you into offices, hospitals, airports, schools, police stations &c. &c. It makes people speak gently to you. It ensures that your name is recorded properly….” @davidyambio.bsky.social
(Hoe) Moet het Nederlandse non-discriminatierecht emergente discriminatiegronden erkennen? Welke plaats moet intersectionaliteit krijgen in het wettelijk kader en de rechtspraktijk?
Jennifer Alspeer & ik schrijven, op vraag van de Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie & Racisme, een preadvies hierover
Jennifer Alspeer & ik schrijven, op vraag van de Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie & Racisme, een preadvies hierover
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
(Hoe) Moet het Nederlandse non-discriminatierecht emergente discriminatiegronden erkennen? Welke plaats moet intersectionaliteit krijgen in het wettelijk kader en de rechtspraktijk?
Jennifer Alspeer & ik schrijven, op vraag van de Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie & Racisme, een preadvies hierover
Jennifer Alspeer & ik schrijven, op vraag van de Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie & Racisme, een preadvies hierover
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Do human rights provide a progressive counterpoint to migration law?
In this article, I highlight their structurally conservative side & argue that the European Court of Human Rights legitimates the foundations of border regimes even when finding rights violations #migsky
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In this article, I highlight their structurally conservative side & argue that the European Court of Human Rights legitimates the foundations of border regimes even when finding rights violations #migsky
brill.com/view/journal...
March 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Do human rights provide a progressive counterpoint to migration law?
In this article, I highlight their structurally conservative side & argue that the European Court of Human Rights legitimates the foundations of border regimes even when finding rights violations #migsky
brill.com/view/journal...
In this article, I highlight their structurally conservative side & argue that the European Court of Human Rights legitimates the foundations of border regimes even when finding rights violations #migsky
brill.com/view/journal...
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Feminist legal scholars Flora Renz and Davina Cooper wrote an article for our journal recently exploring how/why we should think about gender discrimination and legal responses to address it beyond biological frameworks.
You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Feminist legal scholars Flora Renz and Davina Cooper wrote an article for our journal recently exploring how/why we should think about gender discrimination and legal responses to address it beyond biological frameworks.
You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The current political climate is characterised by a backlash against human rights, exacerbating the discrimination of several communities.
On @humanrightshere.bsky.social, I discuss how this year’s Zero Discrimination Day theme advocates for an intersectional approach to eliminating discrimination.
On @humanrightshere.bsky.social, I discuss how this year’s Zero Discrimination Day theme advocates for an intersectional approach to eliminating discrimination.
🌍 Zero Discrimination Day ✊🏽
In this HRH Human Rights Day series post, Nozizwe Dube explores how the role of communities in fighting discrimination and building sustainable HIV responses.
📖 Read: rb.gy/oq9t59
📲 By: Vonecia Carswell, Unsplash
#humanrights, #HIV, #intersectionaldiscrimination
In this HRH Human Rights Day series post, Nozizwe Dube explores how the role of communities in fighting discrimination and building sustainable HIV responses.
📖 Read: rb.gy/oq9t59
📲 By: Vonecia Carswell, Unsplash
#humanrights, #HIV, #intersectionaldiscrimination
March 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The current political climate is characterised by a backlash against human rights, exacerbating the discrimination of several communities.
On @humanrightshere.bsky.social, I discuss how this year’s Zero Discrimination Day theme advocates for an intersectional approach to eliminating discrimination.
On @humanrightshere.bsky.social, I discuss how this year’s Zero Discrimination Day theme advocates for an intersectional approach to eliminating discrimination.
Reposted by Nozizwe Dube
🌍 Zero Discrimination Day ✊🏽
In this HRH Human Rights Day series post, Nozizwe Dube explores how the role of communities in fighting discrimination and building sustainable HIV responses.
📖 Read: rb.gy/oq9t59
📲 By: Vonecia Carswell, Unsplash
#humanrights, #HIV, #intersectionaldiscrimination
In this HRH Human Rights Day series post, Nozizwe Dube explores how the role of communities in fighting discrimination and building sustainable HIV responses.
📖 Read: rb.gy/oq9t59
📲 By: Vonecia Carswell, Unsplash
#humanrights, #HIV, #intersectionaldiscrimination
March 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🌍 Zero Discrimination Day ✊🏽
In this HRH Human Rights Day series post, Nozizwe Dube explores how the role of communities in fighting discrimination and building sustainable HIV responses.
📖 Read: rb.gy/oq9t59
📲 By: Vonecia Carswell, Unsplash
#humanrights, #HIV, #intersectionaldiscrimination
In this HRH Human Rights Day series post, Nozizwe Dube explores how the role of communities in fighting discrimination and building sustainable HIV responses.
📖 Read: rb.gy/oq9t59
📲 By: Vonecia Carswell, Unsplash
#humanrights, #HIV, #intersectionaldiscrimination
Het nieuwste nummer van het Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten (Vlaanderen) is uit.
Ik was, samen met Anne Oloo, gastredacteur voor dit nummer over Palestina.
Hartelijk dank aan alle betrokkenen voor de samenwerking.
Lees het nummer hier: mensenrechten.be/bestanden/up...
Ik was, samen met Anne Oloo, gastredacteur voor dit nummer over Palestina.
Hartelijk dank aan alle betrokkenen voor de samenwerking.
Lees het nummer hier: mensenrechten.be/bestanden/up...
March 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Het nieuwste nummer van het Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten (Vlaanderen) is uit.
Ik was, samen met Anne Oloo, gastredacteur voor dit nummer over Palestina.
Hartelijk dank aan alle betrokkenen voor de samenwerking.
Lees het nummer hier: mensenrechten.be/bestanden/up...
Ik was, samen met Anne Oloo, gastredacteur voor dit nummer over Palestina.
Hartelijk dank aan alle betrokkenen voor de samenwerking.
Lees het nummer hier: mensenrechten.be/bestanden/up...
Thank you @gatybiyo.bsky.social for the invitation to serve as a discussant for @ivy180.bsky.social’s wonderful lecture on Re-imagining EU Law and Institutions.
I learned a lot and was inspired by Professor Solanke’s important work on decolonising EU law.
I learned a lot and was inspired by Professor Solanke’s important work on decolonising EU law.
They say don’t meet your inspirations but sometimes they turn out to be better than you expected!Thank you to Pr Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social & @nozizwe.bsky.social for accepting my invitation to come to the EUI for BHM to talk about how we can reimagine EU law and institutions.
March 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thank you @gatybiyo.bsky.social for the invitation to serve as a discussant for @ivy180.bsky.social’s wonderful lecture on Re-imagining EU Law and Institutions.
I learned a lot and was inspired by Professor Solanke’s important work on decolonising EU law.
I learned a lot and was inspired by Professor Solanke’s important work on decolonising EU law.
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wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
Really excellent piece by @marinavelickovic.bsky.social on the current crisis of international law: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/03/t...
This could have been a Tweet, or: On the politics of signing things
In the wake of the Iraq war, a group of international lawyers published an open letter in the Guardian, framing their opposition to the invasion in
criticallegalthinking.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
Reposted by Nozizwe Dube
In the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, I take stock of the Pay Transparency Directive's intersectional approach. I note potential challenges that lie ahead: the limits of intersectional discrimination's definition, comparators, burden of proof, & sanctions in intersectional claims.
February 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, I take stock of the Pay Transparency Directive's intersectional approach. I note potential challenges that lie ahead: the limits of intersectional discrimination's definition, comparators, burden of proof, & sanctions in intersectional claims.
In the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, I take stock of the Pay Transparency Directive's intersectional approach. I note potential challenges that lie ahead: the limits of intersectional discrimination's definition, comparators, burden of proof, & sanctions in intersectional claims.
February 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, I take stock of the Pay Transparency Directive's intersectional approach. I note potential challenges that lie ahead: the limits of intersectional discrimination's definition, comparators, burden of proof, & sanctions in intersectional claims.