Yousra Abourabi (Rabat): The Normativities of Climate Change: Building New Legal Communities

Due to the current situation the lecture was part of the digital Fellow Meeting of the Käte Hamburger Center.

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Curriculum Vitae

Assist. Prof. Dr. Yousra Abourabi studied Political Science and International Relations at the Universities of Lyon II Lumière and Jean Moulin Lyon III in France. In 2016, she received her doctorate degree with a thesis on "Morocco's african policy under the reign of Mohammed VI" at the University Jean Moulin Lyon III, where she had already been teaching during her doctoral studies. In addition, Yousra Abourabi was Junior Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM) in Paris from 2015 to 2016. From 2015 to 2017, she was a visiting lecturer at SciencesPo Rabat – International University of Rabat, Morocco, where she is currently an assistant professor for Political Science and International Relations. Furthermore, she conducts research on African governance in the areas of climate change, gender and migration as a research associate at the Laboratoire d'Etudes Politiques et de Sciences Humaines et Sociales (LEPOSHS) at SciencesPo Rabat. Since 2017 she has also been a coordinator of a bi-annual conference on "African climate change governance". She is a visiting professor at SciencesPo Grenoble as well as a member of the Political Affairs cluster of the Economic, Social and Cultural Cluster (ECOSOCC) of the African Union and a member of the Academic Board of the Global Campus of Human Rights, an interdisciplinary center of excellence supported by the European Union.

Since May 2020 Assist. Prof. Dr. Yousra Abourabi has been a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center "Law as Culture" in Bonn.