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Nozizwe Dube
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Ph.D. candidate in EU Law, conducting a critical race feminist analysis of EU equality law
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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

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Een screenshot van de annotatie van I.C. t Moldavië met de titel "I.C. t Moldavië (EHRM, 36436/22) - Een consolidatie van 'bijzondere kwetsbaarheid' als plaatsvervanger van intersectionaliteit"
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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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
A screenshot of Nozizwe Dube’s EUI working paper titled “The Unbearable Whiteness of EU Law”
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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...
Nozizwe is standing behind a lectern on a stage. She is dressed in white and is speaking into the microphone.
June 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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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.
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.
May 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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(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
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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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...
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.
March 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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.
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'
February 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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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:
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."
February 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Yesterday, I presented my paper titled “A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law” at the Ius Commune Conference in Utrecht.

A 🧵on the paper’s main arguments.
#EULaw #EUEqualityLaw #intersectionaldiscrimination #criticalracetheory
Nozizwe standing in front of a screen showing her presentation, titled A Typology of Comparators and Comparison in EU Equality Law. She is wearing a black and brown dress.
November 29, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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In this Talking about Books video, I discuss how pivotal the book 'Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement' is for my doctoral research in which I conduct a critical race feminist analysis of EU equality law 👇🏾
youtu.be/K2VNLbOgIUk?...

#EULaw #equalitylaw #criticalracetheory
Nozizwe holds the book ‘Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement’ in her hands.
November 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM