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Nora Salem is Assistant Professor of Public International Law and Head of t he International Law Department at the German University in Cairo (GUC), Faculty of Law and Legal Studies, Egypt, where she holds lectures on Public International Law, Human Rights Law, International Environmental Law, International Organizations, Comparative Business Law, and Research Seminars. Nora has recently launched GUC’s Year of Public International Law in order provide a platform for discussions around International Law related issues, while enhancing students’ knowledge on International Law, the diverse stakeholder landscape and current developments.

Prior to that appointment, she served as the International Relations Advisor to the Minister of Tourism of the Arab Republic of Egypt, where she designed the ministry’s strategy. Nora’s academic experience includes her work as Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC), where she held lectures on Introduction to Egyptian and Sharia Law, Public International Law in the Middle East, Collective Security Measures within the UN-System, as well as Egypt and the Women’s Rights Convention. She launched an interdisciplinary lecture series on various issues of women’s rights in order to provide a platform for discussion on gender equality at AUC.

Nora recently published a book on The Impact of the UN Women’s Rights Convention on Egypt’s domestic legislation, were she assessed Egypt’s Personal Status Law; Criminal Law; Labor Law; Nationality Law; Anti-Human Trafficking Law and Egypt’s 2014 Constitution, in light of gender discriminative provisions. As an active member of the International Law community, Nora regularly participates in international conferences and lecture series; serves as a judge at the Jessup Moot Court Competition in the U.S. and Egypt; was elected in November 2020 as a coordinating committee member of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on Feminism & International Law; and as editorial board member of the International Journal of Doctrine, Judiciary and Legislation in Egypt.

Nora graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Cologne, Germany, completed her two-year legal residency at the High Regional Court of Duesseldorf and obtained the German bar examination in 2012. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, for which she received a doctoral stipend by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, and conducted her research as Visiting Scholar at Fordham Law School in New York, USA, between 2013-2016.

During that time, she served in various capacities for the United Nations Secretariat in New York, including the Secretariat of the Administrative and Budgetary Committee (2015) as well as the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism on Chemical Weapons in Syria (2016).