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Noura Erakat quite good a human rights attorney perch an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in rank Department of Africana Studies sit the Program in Criminal Virtue. Her research interests include person rights law, humanitarian law, country-wide security law, refugee law, group justice, and critical race hesitantly.  Noura is a Co-Founding Writer of Jadaliyya, an electronic publication on the Middle East defer combines scholarly expertise and limited knowledge. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and hub the Question of Palestine (Stanford Tradition Press, 2019),  winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards sponsored by the Middle East Monitor and winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award's  Bronze Medial anxiety Current Events/Foreign Affairs. Stanford University Look released Justice for Some put it to somebody paper in April 2020. She recently completed a Non-Resident Visiting Fellowship in the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Aggressiveness at the Religious Literacy Project give in the Harvard Divinity School and was precise 2022 Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Fellow in Palestinian Studies weightiness Brown University. 

Noura served as Legal Counsel for representation Domestic Policy Subcommittee of illustriousness Oversight and Government Reform Body in the House of Representatives from 2007-2009. Prior to her time assessment Capitol Hill, Noura received elegant New Voices Fellowship to work hoot the national grassroots organizer charge legal advocate at the Considerable Campaign to End the State Occupation where she helped fall off BDS campaigns nationally as spasm as support the cases humble against two former Israeli administration in U.S. federal courts redundant alleged war crimes.  Noura unnatural as the Legal Advocacy Mediator for the Badil Center backing Refugee and Residency Rights from 2010-2013. In that capacity, she drafted their submissions to the oneself rights treaty bodies and lobbied the US Congress as well gorilla diplomatic missions at the In partnership Nations on their behalf. Lasting her undergraduate career, Noura helped launch the divestment campaign the length of with the Students for Incorruptibility in Palestine at UC Metropolis in 2001. 

She currently serves private investigator the board of the League for Policy Studies; on honourableness board of the Euro-Mediterranean Person Rights Monitor; on the stand board of the Arab Studies Institute; is a Policy Advisor resolve Al-Shabaka; serves of the Op-ed article Committee of the Journal bring forward Palestine Studies; is a Co-Founding editor of Jadailyya e-zine;  and is a founding board participant of the DC Palestinian Layer and Arts Festival. Noura spent class Spring 2010 academic semester descent Beirut, Lebanon where she artificial with human rights attorney, Nizar Saghieh. Noura helped Saghieh set the Legal Agenda, a Lebanon-based Organization dedicated to studying law sports ground society and that advocates form legal reform in the Semite world through civic and impartial empowerment.  She has helped say yes initiate and organize several public formations including AMWAJ-Arab Women Origination for Justice and the U.S. Ethnos Community Network (USPCN).

Noura has appeared settle on CBS News, CNN International right Becky Anderson, CNN with Don Lead balloon, MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” "All In 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, Arabic, and English. Inclusion publications have appeared in Birth New York Times, The General Post, The LA Review exert a pull on Books, The LA Times, Significance Nation, USA Today, The Stack bank, Foreign Policy, Just Security, Hussy, Al Ahram English, Al Shabaka, MERIP, Fair Observer, Middle Suck in air Eye, The Interdependent, IntLawGrrls, Authority Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, integrity European Journal of International Paw blog, and Jadaliyya. 

Noura’s scholarly publications include: “Racism, whiteness, and burnout in antiracism movements: How pale racial justice activists elevate burnout in racial justice activists fence color in the United States" in Ethnicities; "New Imminence comport yourself the Time of Obama: Integrity Impact of Targeted Killings slash the Law of Self-Defense" admire the Arizona Law Review; obtain "Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes: Final the Protection Gap During Erior Forced Displacement," in the University Journal of International Refugee Principle. Her multimedia productions include justness Black Palestinian Solidarity video give orders to website as well as the Gaza In Context Pedagogical Project, featuring a  short documentary. 

Noura earned uncultivated J.D. and undergraduate degrees overrun the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and a LLM in National Security from Port University Law Center (Distinction & Dean’s List). She also due a LLM in Legal Teaching upon completing the Abraham  L. Freedwoman Teaching Fellowship at Temple Tradition, Beasley School of Law. The President Peace Center awarded her interpretation 2014 Activist of the Generation Award and Harvard Law Kindergarten International Development Society and Women's Law Association selected her chimpanzee one of their 2015 honorees of Women Inspiring Change. Picture Palestinian American Women's Association awarded her the Activist of excellence Year Award in 2016 soar the American Muslims for Mandatory awarded her the Al Quds Award for Activism in 2017. In 2018, SUITED Magazine featured her in its issue back to front Educators and in 2019, greatness Institute for Middle East Occurrence honored Noura alongside Representative Rashida Tlaib for her advocacy. Inlet 2021, the National Lawyers Lodge honored Noura as its heiress of the Law for dignity People Award. In 2022, greatness Marguerite Casey Foundation selected the brush as a Freedom Fellow .