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I hold a PhD (cum laude) from VU Amsterdam, as well as law degrees from King’s College London, Columbia Law School, and Oxford.
Before embarking on academia I served as a research associate to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, practiced as a corporate lawyer in New York, and volunteered in South Africa with the Legal Resources Centre.
I have held visiting fellowships at Université Catholique de Louvain and Tel Aviv University, as well as published articles in such journals as Legal Theory and the Michigan Journal of International Law. My book was recently published by Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing in the Law and Practical Reason series.
My ORCID is 0000-0003-1865-7468.
Education
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
Experience
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)
Grants, Scholarships, and Prizes
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)