Previously she was a Dworkin Balzan post-doctoral fellow and a Postdoctoral Global Hauser Fellow at the Center for Law and Philosophy at NYU, under the supervision of Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy, and a research fellow at Columbia Law School. As part of her PhD research, she was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, UC Berkeley, and the European University Institute. She is the recipient of a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research in collaboration with Rutgers’ Institute for Law and Philosophy for her research into the protection of individual liberty in times of terrorism. 

Dr. Noorda is coordinating the (Dutch) Criminal Law master track and co-teaching courses Strafrecht en rechtsstaat as well as Verdieping Materieel Strafrecht in this master.

Her latest publications include: 

• Hadassa Noorda (2021), "Regulation as Punishment," Criminal Justice Ethics, 40:2, 108-123

Theorists of criminal law widely agree that state punishment involves harsh treatment and stigma and that states must therefore provide protections for targeted individuals. But certain regulatory measures can also be used to impose harsh treatment and stigma. In this article, Hadassa Noorda addresses the stigmatic impact of harsh regulatory measures. She argues that harsh regulatory measures that label targeted individuals as risky impose a stigma that has the potential to significantly affect these individuals' personal and professional relationships. Such measures include area restrictions applied to alleged terrorists and registration requirements for convicted sex offenders. Noorda recommends ways of implementing legal safeguards for targeted individuals against the stigma involved in the employment of such measures.

• Hadassa Noorda (2021), “Criminal Trials for Preventive Deprivations of Liberty,” in: Z. Hoskins and J. Robson (eds.), The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials, Routledge

In this chapter, Hadassa Noorda argues that the application of comprehensive forms of liberty-restricting preventive measures outside prison or jail—which she terms preventive ‘exprisonment—ought to entail a criminal trial.