In 2017, Mando was elected the Lecturer of the Year in the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen. She is the first woman and first international member of staff and non-Dutch speaker to get this award in the Faculty of Law.
She is very fond of using LEGO and other objects and toys so as to explain how to make legal arguments.
Mando has acquired extensive experience in teaching in non-Western institutions, including at Qatar University where she designed and taught the international law and human rights courses (2013-2016). She has also given a series of lectures at the University of Rwanda in the Faculty of Law and the National Police Academy (October 2022). In her capacity as a member of the committee for research and societal impact of the sub-Saharan Africa policy (2022-2026) of the University of Groningen she contributes to assessing teaching and learning projects across continents.
Mando’s teaching praxis aspires to embed diversity, inclusion and well-being in learning. Besides her own teaching, her work in the Law Faculty Council has highlighted areas of improvement and modes of enriching existing pedagogical and institutional practices. In this context she has also organised a series of workshops in the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen on diversity & inclusion in learning and teaching (2020-2022) and have led student events on discussing well-being.
Crucially as a member of the Community of Expertise on Inclusion and Diversity in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Academy Groningen (2020 – ) and in collaboration with the Office of the University of Groningen on Strategy Department of Education & Research and Stellenbosch University we are developing modules for training members of staff on internationalising the curriculum for quality and inclusive programmes.
Mando systematically engages in designing new courses and developing the curriculum both at undergraduate and graduate levels. She does so by applying innovative learning approaches and tools, including critical legal scholarship, multi-disciplinary approaches, project-based learning and design thinking.
In the LLM Public International Law, she redesigned, coordinated and taught the Settlement of International Disputes course (2017-2023). In the Technology Track within the LLB International & European Law, she designed, coordinates and teaches the Intellectual Property course.
She is also involved in teaching at the University College Groningen and at the Honours Masters of the University of Groningen.
In the University College Groningen (2018-2021) she designed and taught the capstone course The Age of Human Rights. The course adopted:
In the Honours Masters programme she designed the masterclass Dissidence in Leadership “What Would Bert Roling Do?” (2020 – present). The course studies in a multi-disciplinary way the phenomenon of dissidence with a special focus on how scholarship and societal forces bring (or not) change and lead novel ways of thinking.
LLM Technology Law & Innovation (2023 – )
Technology Track within the LLB International & European Law (2020 – )
Alongside Jeanne Misfud-Bonnici and Jonida Milaj-Weishaar, we developed a new programme of studies on technology law as a specialised track within the existing LLB in International & European Law.
LLM Public International Law (2017-2023)
LLB International & European Law (2016-2020)