Nour Benghellab-Outtas

Postdoctoral Global Fellow
nb4104@nyu.edu

Nour is a Postdoctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ).

She completed a PhD dissertation in Law, Political Studies, and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris (École des hautes études en sciences sociales). Her dissertation focuses on the aesthetics of Carl Schmitt’s literary writings to understand the mythopoetic procedures at the heart of his political-legal project. Before joining NYU, she was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute.

She was also a lecturer on international public law and legal theory at the University of Quebec in Montreal for undergraduate and master’s degrees. Her main research fields are Legal History, Theory and Philosophy of Law, Public International Law, and Constitutional Law.

During her stay, Nour intends to approach Nazi legal thought as a genuine part of European legal thought. Racism, colonialism, anti-Semitism, social Darwinism, eugenics and extractivism do not belong solely to Nazi ideology but were (and still are) widely spread in Western (European) societies and academia. In this perspective, she intends to focus on the genealogy of Nazi legal concepts in modern legal thought, as it relates to both the conquest of human lifeworld and the extractive relation to the environment.

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice
Research Project: Genealogy of National-Socialist Colonial Legal Concepts