Department of Business Humanities and Law

Nicole Stybnarova works in International Law, with a focus on gender, colonialism, and economic development. Her current research explores the law of international economic development from the perspective of ‘peasants’ and other actors historically excluded from legal and economic authorship, who experienced its effects in the former colonies. The study traces how legal frameworks and policies shaped gender relations, land use and protection, industrialization, marketization, trade, and the scaling-up of production, drawing on UN and ILO archives and employing a grounded theory approach in conversation with feminist theory, socio-linguistics, and political economy.

Nicole is available to advise on projects concerning the legal infrastructures that facilitate the international operations of corporations, as well as on matters related to Migration Law, EU law, Private International Law, and Danish Public Law.

Prior to joining CBS Law, Nicole held academic and teaching positions at Harvard Law School (Institute of Global Law and Policy), Leiden University and Oxford University, where she taught courses in Public International Law, EU Law, Comparative Public Law, and Legal Theory. She holds degrees in law and legal studies from the University of Helsinki (PhD), Oxford University (MPhil) and Charles University in Prague (LLM).