My research takes an interdisciplinary and socio-legal approach to different areas of law with a particular focus on the history and theory of international law, decolonisation, global political economy and gender.  My first monograph – Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law (Brill, 2023) traces the ways in which various actors have sought to reinvent self-determination in different juridical, political, and economic iterations to create the conditions for global transformation.  

I have also published widely on issues of gender inequality, including in relation to labour law and the regulation of care, feminist political economy and social reproduction theory. I currently sit on the editorial board of Feminist Legal Studies. 

Drawing on the law and humanities tradition, my research also examines the aesthetics and spatial politics of international law. I am currently part of the research project legal sightseeing with Sofia Stolk and Renske Vos at VU University www.legalsightseeing.org.  An edited volume based on this research, Legal Architecture, is forthcoming with Elgar.

Teaching

I currently teach on the following courses: Retssociologi (MA) and Retssociologi, Normer og Praksis (BA); International Law for the Social Sciences (BA); Legal Methods (MA); International Negotiations (MA); Velfærd, regulering og instititioner (BA); Forholdet mellem ret og politik (MA) 

Education

I received my PhD in International Law from University of Copenhagen. I also hold a Masters of Law (cand.jur) from the University of Copenhagen, and a BA in Art History and LLB in Law from the University of Western Australia. 

Background

I was previously a lecturer and postdoc at Lund University, and have held visiting fellowships at the Lauterpacht Centre at Cambridge University and at the University of Toronto. I have worked as a researcher and consultant for a number of organisations, including the UNODC, DIGNITY, The Danish Institute of Human Rights, and the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. 

Since finishing my PhD in 2015 I have taken four periods of parental leave in 2015/2016, in 2016/2017, in 2019/2020 and in 2023/2024.