About
Research
Email: daniela.nadj@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
This semester Dr Nadj is teaching International Criminal Law and Medical Law on the LLB degree.
Other teaching areas of expertise include:
- public law
- international human rights law
- public international law
- EU law and criminal law.
Research
Research profile
Dr Nadj's research is in the area of international criminal law, human rights, and gender. In 2018, she published her monograph International Criminal Law and Sexual Violence against Women: The Interpretation of Gender in the Contemporary International Criminal Trial with Routledge.
Her research explores the portrayal of the various gendered identities that surface in armed conflict and it asks whether the law is capable of reflecting these in subsequent judgements. Although her main focus has been on the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Dr Nadj is also interested in exploring the gendered identities that surface in the judgments of the International Criminal Court and the developments in the jurisprudence of the ICC.
Additionally, her future research aims to explore the widespread phenomenon of violence against women in peacetime, with a particular focus on femicides against women as a structural problem of violence against women.
In her research, Dr Nadj draws on feminist legal theory, intersectionality, and critical legal theory. Additionally, she has published scholarly articles on housing and human rights, having explored in detail the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 from a human rights perspective.
Dr Nadj is interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of international criminal law, human rights law, gender, gender-based violence, and armed conflict.
Research publications
Monographs
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D. Nadj, Women, Wartime Sexual Violence and the Interpretation of Gender in the Contemporary International Criminal Trial, (Routledge, May, 2018).
Book chapters
- D. Nadj, ‘Bridging the Divide: An Interview with Professor Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women’, E. Buzawa and C. Buzawa (eds.) Global Responses to Domestic Violence, (Springer, 2017).
Journal articles
- D. Nadj ‘The Rise of Femicide and the Need for a Convention on Violence against Women in International Law’. Upcoming.
- S. Benzel, J. Johansson, D. Nadj and N. Rashid, ‘What Eating Disorder are Really Like-Dynamics of Lived Experience and repetitive Aesthetics on TikTok’, (Submitted to Media, Culture and Society, December, 2023).
- D. Nadj, ‘Deregulation, the Absence of the Law and the Grenfell Tower Fire’ Vol. 5 (2) QMHRR, (October, 2019).
- D. Nadj, ‘Bridging the Divide: An Interview with Professor Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women’, 23 (3) Feminist Legal Studies (November, 2015).
- D. Nadj, ‘A Subject Without Name-the Inclusion of Gender and the Erasure of the Woman in International Human Rights Law’, 2 (1) Westminster Law Review, (April 2013).
- D. Nadj, ‘The Culturalisation of Identity in an Age of ‘Ethnic Conflict’- Depoliticised Gender in ICTY Wartime Sexual Violence Jurisprudence’, 15(5) International Journal of Human Rights, (2011), pp. 647-663.
Encyclopedia contributions
- D. Nadj, ‘UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict’, in F. Bernat and K. Frailing, (eds), Encyclopedia of Women and Crime, (Wiley, November, 2019).
- D. Nadj, ‘Gender and International Human Rights Issues’, in F. Bernat and K. Frailing, (eds), Encyclopedia of Women and Crime, (Wiley, November, 2019).
Media articles/blogs/podcasts
- D. Nadj, ‘TNT Show Talk with John Drummond about Human Rights’, March 2023.
- D. Nadj, ‘The Grenfell Tower Fire as a Breach of the Right to Life, Oxford Human Rights Hub, November, 2019.
- Podcast with Women’s NGO Filia on Women, Wartime Sexual Violence and the Need for a binding Convention on Violence against Women in International Law, July 2019.
- D. Nadj, ‘Violence against Women: Nobel Peace Prize is a Start-but Legal Backing is long Overdue’, The Conversation, (October, 2018), reprinted in The Independent, November 10, 2018.