Nora Jaber is a Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World, based at the School of Law and the Al-Waleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World. Nora’s research intersects law, feminist theory, and political economy. Her work primarily examines the role and limitations of international law in achieving justice in non-Western contexts, with a focus on gender justice in the Arab and Islamic world. It captures and centres non-Western/non-liberal frameworks and epistemologies that are largely overlooked in Western scholarship. In 2022, Nora was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize (BRISMES) for her doctoral research on legal activism and struggles for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.More broadly, Nora’s work examines the relationship between law and social justice and is interested in how law strengthens and limits political struggles for justice. In 2024, Nora co-established the ‘Juridification of Justice' research network, which brings together scholars and others whose work addresses related questions.Nora teaches international law and global law, and convenes a course titled 'Law and Power in the Muslim World'. Before joining Edinburgh, Nora was a lecturer in law at the University of Exeter. She obtained her PhD in Law from King’s College London and her LLM from the London School of Economics. Contact Dr Jabernjaber@ed.ac.uk This article was published on 2025-01-10
