Erin Jackson is a PhD candidate within the legal theory section of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance at Utrecht University. Her research examines judicial cultures and networks in Europe from an institutional perspective. This comparative socio-legal study is part of the research project ‘Old, New Borrowed and Blue: A Comparative Analysis of European Judicial Cultures’ led by Dr. Elaine Mak.
Erin Jackson holds a Bachelor of Journalism with a minor in Sociology (high honours) from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, as well as an LLM (cum laude) in International Human Rights and Criminal Justice from the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at Utrecht University. She previously was part of the Global Governance research team at The Hague Institute for Global Justice and acted as assistant coordinator of the gender equality law stream of the European Equality Law Network of the European Commission. Erin is also Managing Editor of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. Her research interests include comparative law, global governance, human rights law, international criminal law, gender equality law, socio-legal research methods, and European law.