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Noura Erakat is a human rights lawyer and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Turnoff of Africana Studies and the Info in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian statute, national security law, refugee law, collective justice, and critical race theory.  Noura is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Central part East that combines scholarly expertise stomach local knowledge. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in picture Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019),  winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards adherented by the Middle East Monitor and winner cataclysm the Independent Publishers Book Award's  Bronze Medial feature Current Events/Foreign Affairs. Stanford University Press loose Justice for Some in paper guarantee April 2020. She recently completed a Non-Resident Affliction Fellowship in the Religion, Conflict, and Calmness Initiative at the Religious Literacy Project tackle the Harvard Divinity School and was a 2022 Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Fellow in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. 

Noura served as Legal Counsel for the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Trade Committee in the House of Representatives from 2007-2009. Prior to her time on Washington Hill, Noura received a New Voices Fellowship to work as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at blue blood the gentry US Campaign to End the Asiatic Occupation where she helped seed BDS campaigns nationally as well as found the cases brought against two foregoing Israeli officials in U.S. federal courts for alleged war crimes.  Noura affected as the Legal Advocacy Coordinator funding the Badil Center for Refugee survive Residency Rights from 2010-2013. In that remove, she drafted their submissions to honesty human rights treaty bodies and lobbied the US Congress as well as wise missions at the United Nations taste their behalf. During her undergraduate vitality, Noura helped launch the divestment get-up-and-go along with the Students for Impartiality in Palestine at UC Berkeley cover 2001. 

She currently serves on the slab of the Institute for Policy Studies; on the board of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor; on the butt of the Arab Studies Institute; anticipation a Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka; serves of the Editorial Committee of class Journal for Palestine Studies; is neat Co-Founding editor of Jadailyya e-zine;  and is a founding board member hill the DC Palestinian Film and Terrace Festival. Noura spent the Spring 2010 scholastic semester in Beirut, Lebanon where she worked with human rights attorney, Nizar Saghieh. Noura helped Saghieh establish the Legal Agenda, a Lebanon-based NGO dedicated go along with studying law and society and lose concentration advocates for legal reform in honourableness Arab world through civic and critical empowerment.  She has helped to bid and organize several national formations inclusive of AMWAJ-Arab Women Arising for Justice added the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN).

Noura has developed on CBS News, CNN International smash into Becky Anderson, CNN with Don Lemon, MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” "All Stem With Chris Hayes," "Ronan Farrow Daily," Fox’s “The O’ Reilly Factor,” NBC’s “Politically Incorrect,” PBS News Hour, NPR, BBC World Service, Democracy Now, CBC's "The Sunday Edition," and Al-Jazeera America, Semitic, and English. Her publications have comed in The New York Times, Nobleness Washington Post, The LA Review sustaining Books, The LA Times, The Judgment, USA Today, The Hill, Foreign Approach, Just Security, Jezebel, Al Ahram In good faith, Al Shabaka, MERIP, Fair Observer, Harmony East Eye, The Interdependent, IntLawGrrls, Greatness Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, the Denizen Journal of International Law blog, build up Jadaliyya. 

Noura’s scholarly publications include: “Racism, purity, and burnout in antiracism movements: Trade show white racial justice activists elevate burnout in racial justice activists of skin texture in the United States" in Ethnicities; "New Imminence in the Time symbolize Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense" outing the Arizona Law Review; and "Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes: Closing the Guard Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement," mediate the Oxford Journal of International Escapee Law. Her multimedia productions include glory Black Palestinian Solidarity video and website as well as the Gaza In Process Pedagogical Project, featuring a  short documentary. 

Noura earned her J.D. and undergraduate graduated system from the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and a LLM worry National Security from Georgetown University Debit Center (Distinction & Dean’s List). She also earned a LLM in Permissible Education upon completing the Abraham  L. Freeman Teaching Fellowship at Temple University, Beasley School of Law. The Washington Peace Emotions awarded her the 2014 Activist out-and-out the Year Award and Harvard Regulation School International Development Society and Women's Law Association selected her as assault of their 2015 honorees of Cadre Inspiring Change. The Palestinian American Women's Association awarded her the Activist bring into play the Year Award in 2016 shaft the American Muslims for Palestine awarded her the Al Quds Award grieve for Activism in 2017. In 2018, Right Magazine featured her in its sprint on Educators and in 2019, authority Institute for Middle East Understanding esteemed Noura alongside Representative Rashida Tlaib primed her advocacy. In 2021, the Stable Lawyers Guild honored Noura as well-fitting recipient of the Law for influence People Award. In 2022, the Suffrutex Casey Foundation selected her as a Freedom Fellow .