Ariël Decoster
Ariël Decoster
adecoster@law.fsu.edu
Ph.D., University of Antwerp and Ghent University (Belgium), 2025
LL.M., University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
LL.M., University of Antwerp (Belgium), 2019
B.Phil, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles (Belgium), 2017
LL.B., UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles (Belgium), 2016
Ariël Decoster joined Florida State University College of Law in 2025 as a Visiting Assistant Professor after earning her Ph.D. from the Universities of Antwerp and Ghent in Belgium. Her scholarship focuses on feminist legal theory, property law, and family law, with particular interest in LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality, and socio-legal or critical perspectives on traditionally doctrinal issues.
Her doctoral dissertation, Masculinity as Property, relied on interdisciplinary methods and utilized the legal concept of property as a heuristic tool to explore how law shapes and reflects societal understandings of masculinity. Her research has been published in internationally recognized, leading, and peer-reviewed journals, including Feminist Legal Studies, Social and Legal Studies, and Men and Masculinities.
She holds an LLM from the University of California, Los Angeles, which was supported by a Fulbright grant in 2020, and has previously held visiting researcher positions at King’s College London (2022) and the University of California, Irvine (2023).
Men in/and Law: Developing “Critical Legal Studies of Men and Masculinities”, 0 FEMINIST LEGAL STUDIES [FEM. LEG. STUD.] 0 (2025, available online awaiting print).
Men’s worth: On Property, Identity, and the Resource of Masculinity, 0 MEN AND MASCULINITIES [MEN AND MASCULINITIES] 0 (2025, forthcoming).
“POSTED: No Trespassing”: On the Performativity of Property and Gender as Intertwined Social Practices of Power, 0 SOCIAL AND LEGAL STUDIES [SOC. LEG. STUD.] 0 (2024, available online awaiting print).
Ariël Decoster & Pieter Cannoot, The Abolition of Sex/Gender Registration in the Age of Gender Self-Determination: an Interdisciplinary, Queer, Feminist and Human Rights Analysis, 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW 26 (2020).