Dr. Hadassa Noorda is an Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) at the Department of Criminal Law, where she specializes in the philosophy of law, with a particular focus on the philosophy of criminal law.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Modern Law Review, Criminal Law and Philosophy, European Human Rights Law Review, and the European Labour Law Journal. Hadassa has also presented her work at renowned conferences and workshops across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Hadassa holds degrees in both law and philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and Columbia University (LL.B., LL.M., BA, MA, PhD). She was a Dworkin Balzan post-doctoral fellow and a Postdoctoral Global Hauser Fellow at the Center for Law and Philosophy at NYU, where she worked under the supervision of Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy. Additionally, she has been a research fellow at Columbia Law School. As part of her PhD research, Hadassa was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, UC Berkeley, and the European University Institute. She also received a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
In 2023-2024, Hadassa was an Institute Gak Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS).
She is presently a co-convenor of the Legal Philosophy Workshop.
Mantouvalou, V., & Noorda, H. (2024). Non-Custodial Sentences and Human Rights. European Human Rights Law Review, 29(3), 228-245.