Nicole Stybnarova

Nicole Stybnarova is a Lecturer in Jurisprudence, International Law, and Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre (ODID), University of Oxford. She is additionally affiliated at Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (Law Faculty), University of Helsinki. Her research interests include Migration Law, Private International Law, Human Rights, and Critical Social Theory. Her DPhil focused on marriage recognition and reunification through the lens of Marxist feminism. Her current project focuses on legal linguistics and the theory of social change.

Nicole has been a visiting fellow at University College London (2021), Copenhagen Business School (2021), Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology (2019), and the University of Copenhagen (2019). In 2023, she will be a visiting fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law (Hamburg) and in 2024, she will be visiting the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.

She has participated at the 2022 IGLP Global Scholars Academy (Harvard Law School), SDI 2021 (Sciences-Po), and 2021 Leicester Law School PGR (prize for Most Commendable Paper). She has been a part of several international projects: CUREDI (MPI, National Correspondent), NOS-HS funded 'Transnational Childhoods' (Co-convenor), NOS-HS funded CONNOR (Constitutionalism in the Nordics, Co-convenor).

Her publications can be accessed at: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/nicole-stybnarova