2019 PhD (cum laude) - VU Amsterdam, Faculty of Law
Title: ‘Rightful Relations with Distant Strangers: A Kantian Critique of the Law of the European Union in the Wider World’
Doctorate awarded cum laude on the recommendation of Arthur Ripstein.
Supervisors: Ester Herlin-Karnell (supervisor), Geoffrey Gordon (second reader).
Examiners: Alice Pinheiro Walla, Arthur Ripstein, Enzo Rossi, Cedric Ryngaert, Wouter Veraart.
Distinction Committee: Mattias Kumm, Peter Niesen.
- degree awarded cum laude, the highest distinction in the Netherlands, awarded to typically 3-5% of all theses.
- thesis awarded the René Cassin Thesis Prize (English Section) 2020 for the best doctoral thesis in English defended in 2019 concerning the topic of human rights.
2010 BCL - University of Oxford (Lincoln College)
2008 JD (Stone Scholar ‘08) - Columbia Law School
2008 LLB (1st class) - King’s College London
Lecturer, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex (January 2024 - present)
Researcher, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University (July 2021 – December 2023)
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Law, Oxford Brookes University (May 2019 – July 2021)
Re:constitution Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien & Democracy Reporting International (October 2020 – July 2021)
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution (June 2015 – May 2019)
Visiting Fellow, GlobalTrust Research Project, Tel Aviv University (October 2014 – May 2015)
Volunteer Lawyer, Legal Resources Centre, Grahamstown, South Africa (January 2013 – May 2013)
Associate, Sidley Austin LLP, New York (January 2011 – January 2013)
Research Associate, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Visiting Scholar, Université Catholique de Louvain (September 2009 – December 2010)
2022 -- Horizon Europe Consortium Grant, States’ Practices of Human Rights Justifications: A study in civil society engagement and human rights through the lens of gender and intersectionality (HRJust). (Total Grant: 2,998,489 EUR; Individual Amount: 44,884 EUR)
2021 -- René Cassin Thesis Prize (English Section), Fondation René Cassin/Institute internationale de droit de l’homme
2020 -- Re:constitution Fellowship, Forum Transregionale Studien & Democracy Reporting International (Stiftung Mercator) (16,800 EUR)
2014 -- Doc.Mobility Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation (24,500 CHF)
2014 -- GlobalTrust Visiting Fellowship, Tel Aviv University (10,500 USD)
2009 -- Polonsky Foundation Grant, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (5,000 GBP)
2008 -- Certificate of Recognition, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law - Columbia Law School
2004 -- Shearman Sterling LLP Book Prize, King’s College London (150 GBP)