Nozizwe Dube

A poster about the online webinar titled "Race, Housing and EU Law: The CJEU and the Danish Housing Case, Case 417/23) The Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL) of the University of Oxford and the European Law Review bring together in discussion leading academics, including Professor Tamara Ćapeta, Advocate General in Case C-417/23. The speakers are: Tamara Ćapeta has served as Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union since October 2021. She was previously a Professor of EU Law at the University of Zagreb, where she co-founded the Department of European Public Law and led several major academic initiatives. Her work focuses on judicial legitimacy and the constitutional dimensions of EU law. Bruno de Witte is Emeritus Professor of European Union Law at Maastricht University and a part-time Professor at the European University Institute. A leading scholar of EU constitutional law, his work covers the relationship between European, national, and international legal orders, the protection of fundamental rights, and the cultural and linguistic diversity of Europe. Hanna Eklund is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in European Law from the European University Institute and is the Principal Investigator of the project Colonialism and EU Law: Writing Legal Histories for the Future. Her research focuses on EU law, constitutionalism, and the relationship between law and social change. Nozizwe Dube is a PhD candidate in EU law at Maastricht University, within the Department of International Law. Her research offers a critical race feminist analysis of the EU equality framework, with a focus on intersectional discrimination and the role of decoloniality in European legal structures. In 2023, she was selected as one of the twelve Faces of Science by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Last month, @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social issued its judgment on the Danish 'Ghetto' Law (C-417/23). Given the paucity of preliminary reference rulings about the Race Equality Directive, this judgment warrants some unpacking.

Join us to discuss the 'Ghetto Housing' judgment tomorrow: bit.ly/4qcbvnX

Thank you!

A typology of comparators and comparisons in EU equality law - Common Market Law Review View A typology of comparators and comparisons in EU equality law by - Common Market Law Review

To read my article in the Common Market Law Review: kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

For an open access version: cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publicati...

This article is the product of much constructive feedback over the last years from my supervisors and EU equality law colleagues who attended conferences and workshops where I presented earlier versions of the article.

I hereby thank them for helping me to sharpen my arguments.

My article titled 'A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law' published in the Common Market Law Review received the honourable mention award of this year's Ius Commune Prize from the Ius Commune Research School.

At @eui-law.bsky.social, @gatybiyo.bsky.social explores how Western notions of private property often clash with Indigenous understandings of land, often reproducing colonial patterns of control.🌳

🔗 https://loom.ly/SepE78M

A screenshot of Nozizwe Dube’s EUI working paper titled “The Unbearable Whiteness of EU Law”

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

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"

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

bit.ly/4qBGCtQ

Professor Solanke’s (@ivy180.bsky.social) inspiring & thought-provoking EUI Black History Month lecture, titled “Reimagining EU law & legal institutions” can be read here:
hdl.handle.net/1814/93727

Thank you @gatybiyo.bsky.social for organising this event & for creating a forum for such discussions

A screenshot of Nozizwe Dube’s EUI working paper titled “The Unbearable Whiteness of EU Law”

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

Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with Davide Tomaselli In this interview, EUI Law researcher Davide Tomaselli explores European asylum law through a queer perspective Drawing on legal practice and political theory

Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with our researcher Davide Tomaselli.

www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

🆕 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.

138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’ Als de Vlaamse regering alsnog in beroep gaat tegen het vonnis over wapendoorvoer naar Israël, gaat ze eigenlijk in beroep tegen haar eigen regels, stellen 138 juristen in deze open brief.

138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’

‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum Abstract. This article addresses the consequences that SOGIESC claims of asylum have on international refugee law and its fundamental distinction between ‘

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.

Whose Values?

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...

Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools This article unpacks the nature of racialised (un)belonging experienced by law students – why for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. F...

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....

Feministische en queer onderzoeksmethoden in het recht Feministisch en queer onderzoek is niet meer weg te denken uit de internationale rechtswetenschap. Onder impuls van de Anglo-Amerikaanse feminist legal theory en queer theory, hebben feministische en ...

Meer informatie over het boek kan hier gelezen worden: www.larcier-intersentia.com/nl/feministi...

Intersectionaliteit in rechtswetenschappelijk onderzoek Op 16 mei 2025 werd het eerste boek over feministische en queer onderzoeksmethoden in het recht uit de Lage Landen (België en Nederland) gepubliceerd. De redacteurs van dit boek (Dr. Pieter Cannoot…

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

Ons preadvies zal eind 2025, naast andere preadviezen over de belangrijkste punten waarop het Nederlandse non-discriminatierecht aan verandering toe is, gepubliceerd worden.

(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