Hadassa Noorda is a philosopher of (criminal) law. She is an assistant professor (universitair docent) at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Criminal Law and the Sectorplan Digitalisering, a 2023-2024 NIAS- Institute Gak Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), and a member of the Legal Philosophy Workshop Organizing Committee.

Hadassa Noorda's work has appeared in international refereed journals and she has spoken at several reputed conferences and workshops in North America, Europe and Asia. In her article “Preventive Deprivations of Liberty: Asset Freezes and Travel Bans” (2015) she developed the novel concept “exprisonment” to refer to incapacitation measures short of imprisonment. 

Her most recent publications appeared in Criminal Law and Philosophy and Criminal Justice Ethics. In her article "Exprisonment: Deprivation of Liberty on the Street and at Home" (2023) she further develops the concept of exprisonment. In "Imprisonment" (2023) she argues that "what matters, in deciding what legal safeguards individuals should have against what kinds of state imposition, is how severely a measure impacts on the normal life of those subjected to it."

Educated in both law and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Columbia University (LL.B., LL.M., BA, MA, PhD), Dr. Noorda was a Dworkin Balzan post-doctoral fellow and a Postdoctoral Global Hauser Fellowat the Center for Law and Philosophy at NYU, under the supervision of Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy, and a research fellow at Columbia Law School. As part of her PhD research, she was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, UC Berkeley, and the European University Institute. She was also the recipient of a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research in collaboration with Rutgers’ Institute for Law and Philosophy for her research into the protection of individual liberty in times of terrorism.

Research interests

• Philosophy of (criminal) law
• Rule of law
• Imprisonment
• Employee monitoring
• Prison labor
• Electronic monitoring

I am open to supervising PhD and MA students interested in the topics mentioned above.

Teaching areas

• Philosophy of Criminal Law
• Philsophy of law
• Rule of Law
• Ethics of War
• Philosophy of Human Rights
• Social and Political Philosophy

You can access her papers on SSRN and Academia.edu

Education

PhD (Philosophy of Law - University of Amsterdam)

MA (Philosophy - University of Amsterdam)

LLM (International Criminal Law - Columbia University, University of Amsterdam)

LLB  cum honore (University of Amsterdam)

BA (Philosophy - University of Amsterdam)