Noura Erakat

Noura Erakat is a human-rights attorney and professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Noura is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. She recently completed a Non-Resident Visiting Fellowship in the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. She was a 2022 Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Fellow in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).