@nozizwe.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in EU Law, conducting a critical race feminist analysis of EU equality law 👩🏾💻 https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/n-dube 👩🏾💻 www.nozizwedube.com
Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with our researcher Davide Tomaselli.
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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
Screenshot of article available through link
Screenshot of article available through link
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.
27.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’
26.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
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!
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.
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-...
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...
Nozizwe is standing behind a lectern on a stage. She is dressed in white and is speaking into the microphone.
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...
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....
Meer informatie over het boek kan hier gelezen worden: www.larcier-intersentia.com/nl/feministi...
28.05.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ik presenteerde er mijn bijdrage ‘Intersectionaliteit in rechtswetenschappelijk onderzoek‘.
In mijn bijdrage bespreek ik drie simultane ontwikkelingen in Europees rechtswetenschappelijk onderzoek die tot de verzwakking van intersectionaliteit leiden: nozizwedube.com/2025/05/23/i...
A photo of a screen with ‘Feministische en queer onderzoeksmethoden in het rechta’ written on it. People are sitting and standing in the background of the room.
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.
“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
15.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Ons preadvies zal eind 2025, naast andere preadviezen over de belangrijkste punten waarop het Nederlandse non-discriminatierecht aan verandering toe is, gepubliceerd worden.
25.04.2025 07:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(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
A screenshot of the abstract for the article “Framing Migration in Human Rights”, available at the link in the post
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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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...
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.
🌍 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
A screenshot of the cover of the latest issue of the Flemish Journal of Human Rights, with a photo of a woman holding a sign written “Free Palestine”. The articles in the issue are: - the editorial in which Anne and I discuss the role of institutions in protecting human rights in Palestine. - an in memoriam for Prof. dr. Koen de Feyter - an article by Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Thalia Kruger and Koen De Feyter on the role of universities in the protection of human rights in Palestine - an analysis by Hans Lammerant on the question whether the arms trade with Israel is in accordance with humanitarian law - a case note written by Raoul Rombouts and Noor Zazour about the lawsuit filed by Ghent University against students in the pro-Palestinian protests - an interview with Maha Abdallah, doctoral researcher in law at the University of Antwerp. Her work focuses on Zionism, settlement colonialism, genocide, and the money flows that maintain Israeli colonialism.
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...
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.
wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
A screenshot of Nozizwe Dube's contribution in the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, titled 'Taking Stock of the EU Pay Transparency Directive's Intersectional Approach'
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.
23.02.2025 09:42 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0You can read the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review - featuring other interesting contributions about positive action on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin, pink tax and tampon tax as gender discrimination - here: www.equalitylaw.eu/downloads/62...
23.02.2025 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of Nozizwe Dube's contribution in the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, titled 'Taking Stock of the EU Pay Transparency Directive's Intersectional Approach'
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.
23.02.2025 09:42 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Looking forward to reading this! Tackling systematic, structural, pre-market inequalities means it’s so important to challenge the assumption that equality = sameness of treatment, with a comparator.
14.02.2025 13:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Thank you very much! I hope you enjoy reading it.
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You can read the article here:
kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...
Thank you to the reviewers and all the other people who have engaged with previous versions of this article in the past years.
This is a screenshot of the abstract of Nozizwe's article published in the Common Market Law Review, titled "A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law". The abstract is as follows: "Comparison plays a sacramental role within EU equality law. However, comparison also deflects EU equality law from its main task: identifying and dismantling systems of marginalization that cause discrimination. This article disrupts the prevailing narrative about comparison as an inescapable feature of equality analysis. A closer look at comparison reveals its objective veneer that conceals its commitment to sustaining a formal model of equality. This makes equality law an assimilationist, instead of an inclusive device. By deviating from comparison, EU equality law can advance towards an inclusive understanding of equality that centres intersectionality. The key therefore lies in the development of comparator-free equality analysis, which relies on the understanding that discrimination is contingent on unequal power and resource distribution, creating systems of marginalization. Hence, instead of comparing a claimant to a decontextualized intercategorical or intracategorical comparator, comparator-free analysis conducts a dignitary harm assessment whereby discrimination is contextualized in the past and contemporary patterns of disadvantage underlying it to establish a prima facie case of discrimination."
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:
