Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Hadassa Noorda
2023-2024
Home institution
University of Amsterdam
Country of origin (home institution)
Netherlands
Discipline(s)
Law
Theme(s)
Contemporary violence & Justice
Human Rights
Labor, Capital & Innovation
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Hadassa is an Instituut GAK Fellow at NIAS during 2023-2024.
Dr. Hadassa Noorda is an Associate Professor (universitair hoofddocent) in the Department of Criminal Law, specializing in philosophy of law and penal theory, with a particular focus on the punishment of imprisonment.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Modern Law Review, Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Sociology. Hadassa has also presented her work at renowned conferences and workshops across North America, Europe, and Asia. Alongside Dr Jeevan Hariharan (UCL), Hadassa is currently working on an edited collection (under contract with Hart Publishing) on Digital Monitoring.
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
Research Project
The Labor and Social Security Rights of Captive Workers
In 2021, the Netherlands shifted to a voluntary work scheme for prisoners. This might be viewed as a better alternative to compulsory prison labor, but there are serious concerns regarding the rights of captive workers: Those doing low-paid work in prison are in a vulnerable and disadvantaged position because of their limited freedom of movement, inability to change jobs, and limited labor and social security rights. This raises the following main research question: What labor and social security rights should working prisoners have? This question is under-researched and must be addressed in order to assess the system of social security and labor market policy in the Netherlands
With this project in the philosophy of law Hadassa Noorda examines this normative question and provides a framework to consider amending the approach to prison labor.
Research Interests:
Prison labor rights; captive worker vulnerability; social security law; normative philosophy of punishment