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Faculty of Law Chair Mahlmann
Nicole Nickerson

Nicole Nickerson, MLaw, LL.M. (KCL)

Phone
+41 (0)44 634 15 86

Education

  • Since June 2023: Research stay at the Human Rights & Peace Center (HURIPEC) in Kampala, Uganda through a UZH Doc.Mobility Fellowship
  • 2022-2023: Research stay at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. through a UZH Doc.Mobility Fellowhip
  • 2020-2022: Modules at the English Department and the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich
  • Since 2018: PhD student with Prof. Mahlmann, University of Zurich - Research project: "The Legitimacy of Rights: Human Nature and Critical Legal Theory"
  • 2017-2019: LL.M. Transnational Law, King's College London
  • 2016-2018: Master of Law (Double Degree), University of Zurich
  • 2011-2016: Bachelor of Law, University of Zurich 

Occupational Activity

  • Since June 2023: Research stay at the Human Rights & Peace Center (HURIPEC) in Kampala, Uganda through a UZH Doc.Mobility Fellowship
  • 2022-2023: Research stay at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. through a UZH Doc.Mobility Fellowhip
  • 2018-2022: Research assistant with Prof. Mahlmann, University of Zurich
  • 2016-2017: Student assistant with Prof. Mahlmann, University of Zurich
  • 2015-2017: Assistant with Bachmann Rechtsanwälte AG, Zurich
  • 2012-2015: Secretary with International Project Aid (IPA), Zurich 

Selected publications

  • Nicole Nickerson, Why Do Human Beings Rise Up? - Foucault and the Concept of Individual Rights, in: Zeitschrift für Grundlagen des Rechts: Rechtsphilosophie, 2024 (forthcoming).
  • Nicole Nickerson, Legal Gender Studies und Humanismus, in: Schweizerisches Institut für feministische Rechtswissenschaft und Legal Gender Studies (eds), Frauen*wahlrecht und Demokratie: Mechanismen des (Un)Rechts, Sammelband anlässlich der Konferenz für Gender Law 2021, 2023 (forthcoming).
  • cognitio, F.Ius, Marisa Beier, Mete Erdogan, Anna Graf, Fabienne Graf, Dario Haux, Julia Meier, Nicole Nickerson, Dario Picecchi, Jan Hendrik Ritter, Arezoo Sang Bastian, Eliane Spirig, Youlo Wujohktsang (eds), Gender und Recht: Perspektiven aus den Legal Gender Studies, transcript, 2023.
  • Nicole Nickerson, Sué González Hauck, Anne Kühler (eds), Editorial for the focal issue "Human Rights and (Socio-)Legal Theory", in: Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2022.
  • Nicole Nickerson, Würde und menschliche Gleichwertigkeit: eine rechtsphilosophische Begründung des Antidiskriminierungsrechts, in: Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht (JuWissBlog), 2022.
  • Nicole Nickerson, Is Europe Failing its “Humanist Inheritance”? – Critical Normative Humanism and EU Immigration Law, in: Swiss Journal of International and European Law, Vol. 31, No. 5, 2021.
  • Lukas Hussmann/Nicole Nickerson/Arezoo Sang Bastian/Youlo Wujohktsang (eds), Unter Gleichen, APARIUZ Band XXII, 2021.
  • Youlo Wujohktsang/Nicole Nickerson, Die Anti-Rassismus-Strafnorm: Kontext und Begriffe, in: ius.full, 5/2020.
  • Nicole Nickerson, Human Rights Universalism in Practice: What the Iranian Women’s Rights Movement Can Teach Us, in: Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2020.
  • Nicole Nickerson/Youlo Wujohktsang, Feminist Movements and the Critique of Human Rights, in: Julia Meier/Lukas Staffler/Nadine Zurkinden (eds), recht. innovativ., APARIUZ Band XXI, 2020.