Dr Nada Ali

Nada is a full-time lecturer at SOAS School of Law, Gender and Media. 

Nada’s research is primarily concerned with International Law and the impact of international institutions (laws, norms and organizations) on developing countries. Her work is themed around governance, development and democratisation and borrows from economics, political science and international relations. 

In her earlier work, Nada used game theory to gauge the effects of prosecutions by the International Criminal Court on internal political dynamics in developing countries; using Sudan as a case study. She conducted research on the construction of the Merowe Dam in Sudan for the Economic and Social research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) and was recently engaged by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) to advise on policy issues arising out of the ongoing Sudanese Revolution and prospects for transitioning to democracy. 

In addition to her work on Sudan, Nada is interested in the politics of International Criminal Law and adopts a TWAIL perspective on issues of international criminal justice in the Global South.

Articles

• Ali, N (2014). Bringing the Guilty to Justice: Can the ICC be Self-Enforcing? Chicago Journal of International Law, vol 14, no. 2, 3, pp. 408-452.
• Ali, N., Willis, R. D., El Moghraby, A., & Hashim, M. J. (2019). Norms, mobilization and conflict: The Merowe dam as a case study. Transnational Environmental Law, 8(2), 217-245.
• Ali, N. (2019). Through a Glass Darkly: The icc, the unsc and the Quest for Justice in International Law. international criminal law review, 19(4), 669-697.
• Ali, N. (2022). Stubborn Historical Legacies: Power Relations and Government Policy in Sudan. ERF Working Paper Series, No 1551.

Upcoming publications

• Ali, N. The Male Gaze, Imperialist Narratives and Political Conflicts in Sudan in Godden-Rassul and Kula, Research Handbook on Gender and Violence.
• Ali N. Identity, Belonging and the Politics of Conflict in Sudan.
• Ali N. Baldwin’s “Lie of Whiteness” and the Palestinian Question, the Palestine Year Book of International Law.

Conference items

• N. Ali, ‘Bringing the Guilty to Justice: Can the ICC be Self-enforcing?’ in the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Law and Economics, Warsaw, 26 September 2013.
• N. Ali, ‘Through a Glass Darkly: the ICC, the UNSC and the Quest for Justice in International Law’ in the 4th Annual Workshop of International Criminal Law, the University of Western Australia, Sep 2016.
• N Ali, ‘Bringing the Guilty to Justice: Can the ICC be Self-enforcing?’ in the Conflict Research Society (CRS) Annual Conference, Sep 2015.
• N. Ali, ‘The Role of Democracy in International Criminal Justice’ in the Conflict Research Society (CRS) Annual Conference, Sep 2015.
• N. Ali, ‘Stubborn Historical Legacies: Power Relations and Government Policy in Sudan’ in ERF National Webinar "From Fragility to Resilience: Avoiding the Failed State Trap and the Road Ahead For Sudan", Feb 2022

Public international law, international criminal law, environmental law and institutions, law and economics, democratization and development