Nozizwe Dube (N.)

Nozizwe Dube is conducting a critical race feminist analysis of the EU equality framework, with the aim of identifying the transformation needed in EU equality law, the Court of Justice of the European Union’s jurisprudence, and equality policy to effectuate a thorough and sustainable acknowledgment of intersectional discrimination. To this end, her research encompasses comparative research with the equality jurisprudence of the Council of Europe (the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee on Social Rights); the US Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of South Africa. 

Nozizwe is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. 

Before joining Maastricht University, Nozizwe obtained her Bachelor and Master of Laws at KU Leuven, Belgium. As part of the Erasmus+ programme, she studied at Venice International University (Italy) in the Globalization Programme, where she received an award for academic excellence. She has interned at the Belgian Constitutional Court and the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the United Nations in New York.

Nozizwe tutors Introduction to International and European Law, and Human Rights of Women at Maastricht University. She is a member of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights (NNHRR) and the Ius Commune Research School. She is also in the management team of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights (MCfHR). In 2023, Nozizwe was selected as one of the twelve Faces of Science by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Besides critical race theory and critical race feminism, Nozizwe also has an avid interest in decoloniality and its intersection with law (particularly within the context of the EU and Europe).