Nora Stappert

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Nora Stappert joined MOBILE in February 2023 as an Associate Professor. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, and a Lecturer in International Relations and International Law at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. Before joining Leeds, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at Copenhagen’s iCourts, where she conducted a research project on the practices of interpretation in international criminal law. Furthermore, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University, where she worked on a research program on Legitimacy in Global Governance, a collaboration between the universities of Stockholm, Lund, and Gothenburg. She holds a doctorate (DPhil) in International Relations from the University of Oxford, Pembroke College (2017), a Master of Studies in Law (MSL) program at Yale Law School (2013), and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in International Relations from the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College (2011).

Primary fields of research

Practice theory, legal change, contestation and legitimacy of international institutions, legal authority and interpretation in international law

Teaching

international law, International Relations theory, research methods