mr. Dr. Nawal Mustafa an Assistant Professor in Black Studies, Critical Race Studies, and Indigenous Studies within the Cultural Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. Her work explores the intersections of law, colonialism, slavery, and the regulation of intimacy. mr. Dr. Mustafa completed her PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focusing on migration and the historical regulation of interracialised intimacy in the UK following World War II. After her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher examining the legal history of slavery within the Dutch empire. Next to her academic roles, mr. dr. Mustafa also serves as a strategic legal advisor at PILP, a human rights law firm and NGO based in Amsterdam.