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.
