Dr. Nicole Stybnarova

Biography

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 with the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include Migration Law, Private International Law, Human Rights, and Critical Social Theory. Nicole completed her DPhil focusing on marriage recognition and reunification through the lens of Marxist feminism. Currently, she is working on a project that examines legal linguistics and its implications for social change. Nicole has been a visiting fellow at University College London and Copenhagen Business School in 2021, as well as at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology and the University of Copenhagen in 2019. She will be a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private International Law in 2023 and at Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy in 2024. She participated in the 2022 IGLP Global Scholars Academy at Harvard Law School and was recognized for a Commendable Paper in the 2021 Leicester Law School PGR. Nicole is also involved in various international projects such as CUREDI, and is a co-convenor for the NOS-HS funded 'Transnational Childhoods' and CONNOR (Constitutionalism Nordics) projects.

Research Interests