Directory of Scholars

Raul Sanchez-Urribarri 

Dr. Raul Sanchez-Urribarri is a Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of South Carolina, an LL.M. from Cambridge University and a Law Degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Caracas, Venezuela).  His research focuses on democracy, rule of law and comparative judicial studies, with an emphasis on Latin America and Venezuela in particular. His work has been published in a variety of outlets, including The Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, International Political Science Review and The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, among others. He is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Tulane University’s Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, and a Co-Editor at Thesis Eleven Journal. He served as Chair of the Section on Venezuelan Studies (SVS) of the Latin American Studies Association in 2020-2022.

Email:  r.sanchezu@latrobe.edu.au

Twitter:  @rasurri 

Webpage:  https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/r2sanchezurr

Richard Albert

Professor Richard Albert is Professor of World Constitutions and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published over twenty books on democratic reform and constitutional change, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press). He is Co-President of the International Society of Public Law, founding director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, and a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada. Born and raised in Canada, Richard Albert holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard.

Email: richard.albert@law.utexas.edu 

Twitter: @richardalbert 

Webpage: https://www.richardalbert.com

Zachary Elkins

Dr. Zachary Elkins is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas.  His research focuses on issues of democracy, institutional reform, research methods, and national identity, with an emphasis on cases in Latin America. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Steal this Constitution: The Drift and Mastery of Constitutional Design, which examines the design and diffusion of democratic institutions.  Much of his research is on the origins and consequences of national constitutions.  With Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago), Professor Elkins co-directs both the Comparative Constitutions Project, a NSF-funded initiative to understand the causes and consequences of constitutional choices, and the website Constitute, which provides resources and analysis for constitutional drafters in new democracies. Elkins earned his B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Email: zelkins@austin.utexas.edu

Twitter: @zedtexw

Webpage: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/elkinszs and https://sites.google.com/site/zachelkinstexas/

Ranieri L. Resende

Dr. Ranieri L. Resende is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil, 2021-23), where he obtained his PhD. in Law, and was Visiting Doctoral Researcher for the academic year 2017-18 at the New York University School of Law (NYU, U.S.), and Excellence Fellow of the Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation (FAPERJ, Brazil, 2018-19). Recently, Ranieri assumed the position of Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL, Germany, 2020). His doctoral dissertation was focused on the Precedent of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which part was sequentially published by the Northwestern Journal of Human Rights and the New York University Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series (No. 19-11) . During his MSc. in Law studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil), Ranieri has dedicated to the International Law field and was admitted as Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg. His Master thesis was partially published in the Goettingen Journal of International Law under the title “Normative Heterogeneity and International Responsibility: Another View on the World Trade Organization and its System of Countermeasures”, and it was honorably included in the selective Oxford Bibliographies (2015). His book on international responsibility was also included in the Oxford Bibliographies, as one of the best works on international law published in Portuguese Language (2021). Besides these papers, Ranieri has published in many scientific journals, conference proceedings and collective books in Brazil and abroad, especially in the fields of International Protection of Human Rights, Inter-American System, International Responsibility, Democracy, Constitutionalism, Judicial Review, Fundamental Rights, and Transitional Justice. Some of his works were quoted by the Brazilian Supreme Court in recent important precedents (e.g.: Asbestos Cases, Provisional Execution of Criminal Sentence Cases), as well as by legal scholars in several countries.

Email: ranieri@ranieriresende.com

Twitter: ranieri_resende

Webpage: http://www.ranieriresende.com

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

Dr. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán is Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he serves as Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on political institutions, the rule of law, and human rights in new democracies. He is co-principal investigator of the Notre Dame Reparations Design and Compliance Lab, and he was editor in chief of the Latin American Research Review (2016-21), the scholarly journal of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA. He is the author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instabilityin Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America (with Scott Mainwaring, Cambridge University Press, 2013).  

Email: aperezl1@nd.edu

Twitter: @aperezli

Webpage: https://anibalperezlinan.com/

Pedro C. Magalhães

Dr. Pedro C. Magalhães is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and the Director of PASSDA  the research infrastructure in charge of implementing the European Social Survey, the Portuguese Election Study and other comparative social surveys in Portugal. His research focuses on public opinion, elections, and constitutional politics. Recent works include studies of public trust in courts in Europe, published in West European Politics and Social Science Quarterly.

Email: pedro.magalhaes@ics.ul.pt

Twitter: @PCMagalhaes

Webpage: http://www.pedro-magalhaes.org

Risa Kitagawa Amano

Dr. Risa Kitagawa Amano is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the politics of transitional justice efforts that address a legacy of political violence and conflict. She is interested more broadly in human rights violations, post-conflict processes, public opinion, and experimental research. Her work appears or is forthcoming in World Politics and Journal of Conflict Resolution, and her first book project uses econometric and survey-experimental methods to investigate transitional justice policymaking in post-conflict states and its downstream consequences for reconciliation. Recent projects explore the impact of political apologies, the relationship between human rights trials and public opinion, and the efficacy of transitional justice policies in restoring political legitimacy. She is currently a Faculty Affiliate of the Global Resilience Institute and Asian Studies Program at Northeastern and a Faculty Associate of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University (2017) and a B.A. in international relations and French from New York University (2009). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

Email: r.kitagawa@northeastern.edu

Twitter: @kitagawarisa

Webpage: https://www.risakitagawa.com

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

Dr. Sara McLaughlin Mitchell is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science and the College of Law (courtesy appointment) at the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science at Michigan State University in 1997. She is author of six books including Domestic Law Goes Global: Legal Traditions and International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and What Do We Know About War? (Rowman Littlefield 2021) and she has published more than sixty journal articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of several major research awards from the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and USAID. Her areas of expertise include international conflict, political methodology, and gender issues in academia. Professor Mitchell is co-founder of the Journeys in World Politics workshop, a mentoring workshop for junior women studying international relations. She is the recipient of several research, teaching, and graduate mentoring awards from the University of Iowa, the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award (2015) from the International Studies Association, a distinguished alumni award from Iowa State University, and she served as President of the Peace Science Society. 

Email: sara-mitchell@uiowa.edu

Twitter: @sbmitche 

Webpage: http://saramitchell.org/

Whitney K. Taylor

Whitney K. Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on law and courts, state-society relations, and legal consciousness and mobilization. Her work has been published ina range of journals, including Comparative Political Studies,Comparative Politics​, ​Government & Opposition,Law & Society Review, andLaw & Social Inquiry. She is working on book manuscripts on (1) the embedding of constitutional law and (2) claim-making as a form of everyday citizenship practice.

Email: wktaylor@sfsu.edu

Twitter: @w_k_taylor

Webpage: https://whitneyktaylor.weebly.com/

Mark Fathi Massoud

Mark Fathi Massoud is professor of politics and legal studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he directs the Legal Studies Program and serves as affiliated faculty with the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Massoud also holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He is the author of Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan, which received the Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize, and Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics, which received the Socio-Legal Studies Association Hart-SLSA Book Prize. 

Email: mmassoud@ucsc.edu

Twitter: @ProfMassoud

Webpage: people.ucsc.edu/mmassoud

Hélène Tyrrell

Hélène Tyrrell is a Lecturer in Law at Newcastle Law School. Her research focuses on courts and judges, human rights, and administrative law. Her monograph, Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence (Hart 2018) was a runner-up for the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship and is long-listed for the Inner Temple Book Prize 2022 (Main Prize). Hélène’s work on human rights in the UK has contributed to various UK Government consultations and been cited in Parliamentary Committee reports. In January 2022, Hélène gave oral evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, on the subject of the proposed reform of the Human Rights Act 1998.   Her teaching areas cover constitutional law, administrative law, human rights, tort law and judicial studies. She has taught at the University of Durham, Queen Mary University of London and at the University of Lille, in Paris. At Newcastle, Hélène leads first year the Administrative Law and Human Rights’ module and ‘Foundations of Legal Skills’ programme. Hélène was named ‘Law Teacher of the Year’ at the Northern Law Awards 2018. 

Email: helene.tyrrell@newcastle.ac.uk

Twitter: @DrHeleneTyrrell

Webpage: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/people/profile/helenetyrrell.html

Mishella Romo Rivas

Mishella Romo Rivas is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She obtained a BA in Political Science and Jurisprudence and an MA in Law and Governance from Montclair State University. She has an MA in Politics from New York University. She is interested in presidentialism, populism and judicial politics. She has presented her research at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and the Northeastern Political Science Association. She has written and co-authored papers that have been published by the American Political Science Association, the National Political Science Honor Society, Latin American Perspectives, and the Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements. At Princeton, Mishella is conducting research on the politics of horizontal accountability and court legitimacy in Latin America. 

Email: Msrivas@princeton.edu

Twitter: @MishellaRomo

Webpage:  https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-dfp-spring-fellow-mishella-romo-rivas-princeton-university/

Kim Lane Scheppele

Professor Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Scheppele’s work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, Professor Scheppele studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. After 9/11, she researched the effects of the international “war on terror” on constitutional protections around the world. Since 2010, she has been documenting the rise of autocratic legalism first in Hungary and then in Poland, as well as its spread around the world.  Most recently, she has written extensively about the response of  European Union institutions and European law to rule of law challenges.  Her many publications in law reviews, in social science journals, and in many languages cover these topics and others. Professor Scheppele is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Academy of Comparative Law. In 2014, she received the Law and Society Association’s Kalven Prize for influential scholarship. She held tenure in the political science department at the University of Michigan, was a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, was the founding director of the gender program at Central European University Budapest, directed the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton for a decade, and has held visiting faculty positions in the law schools at Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Erasmus/Rotterdam, and Humboldt/Berlin.  From 2017-2019, she was the elected President of the Law and Society Association. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law, elected as a “global jurist.” 

Email: kimlane@princeton.edu

Twitter: @KimLaneLaw

Webpage:  https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/kim-lane-scheppele

Jennifer Bowie

Dr. Jennifer Bowie is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond and the former Editor of the Law and Politics Book Review. Her research and scholarly work examines judicial decision-making on the US and comparative courts. Jennifer is the recipient of a collaborative multi-year National Science Foundation grant totaling more than $300,000. The funded project titled “Dynamic Learning in Comparative Courts: A Cross-National Analysis of Judicial Decision Making in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom” advances a new and innovative theoretical framework on the dynamic transmission of information between two tiers of courts across the judiciaries of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She has published research in several peer-reviewed journals and edited book volumes, including the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Justice System Journal, and the Journal of Law and Courts. She is a co-author of A View from the Bench and Chambers: Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the US Court of Appeals (University of Virginia Press, 2014). Jennifer is also the recipient of the American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section Teaching and Mentoring Award (2020) and the Distinguished Educator Award at the University of Richmond (2020). Recently, she was awarded a University of Richmond Provost Fellowship (2022-2023) for her scholarship and work mentoring student research. 

Email: jbowie@richmond.edu

Twitter: @JenniferBowie9

Webpage: https://polisci.richmond.edu/faculty/jbowie/

Dante Gatmaytan

Professor Gatmaytan teaches Constitutional Law, Legal Method, and Local Government Law. Before he entered the academe in 1998, he practiced law through public interest law offices working with rural poor communities involved in environment and natural resources law, indigenous peoples’ rights, agrarian reform, and local governance. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from the Ateneo de Manila (B.S. Legal Management) in 1987 and a law degree (LL.B.) from the University of the Philippines in 1991. He holds Masters Degrees from Vermont Law School (cum laude) and the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Gatmaytan writes on a wide range of issues which include the environment, gender, the judiciary, and the intersection of law and politics. His works have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Journal, the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, the Oregon Review of International Law, the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, and the Harvard Women’s Law Journal among others. His primary research interests are concentrated on constitutional amendments, the interaction of law and politics, and comparative constitutionalism. Professor Gatmaytan’s books include Legal Method Essentials, Local Government Law and Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Law in the Philippines: Government Structure (published by Lexis-Nexis in 2015). His scholarship is collected in More Equal than Others: Constitutional Law and Politics, and Underclass: Public Interest Law Practice Perspectives. He served as the Head of the Information and Publication Division of the UP Law Center from 2013-2018 and is presently Director of the Institute for the Administration of Justice. 

Email:  dbgatmaytan@up.edu.ph

Webpage:  https://law.upd.edu.ph/profile/faculty-gatmaytandante/

Elisa Arcioni

Elisa Arcioni is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, Australia. She is a leading scholar of constitutional identity – who are ‘the people’ in the Australian Constitution? She works in the field of public law, focusing in particular on questions of inclusion and exclusion in constitutional law and politics. Elisa is interested in the way in which law interacts with identity, how judges engage in this field, how citizenship becomes constitutionalised, and how legal systems interact in that space. Elisa is currently engaged in a 3 year project on claims of belonging in Australian law and history (with Helen Irving and Rayner Thwaites). Elisa is an outgoing convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Membership and Exclusion under Constitutions, a former Executive Council member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and former Editor of the Sydney Law Review. Elisa joined the University of Sydney Law School in 2012, prior to which she was lecturer in law at the University of Wollongong and associate to the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia.

Email: elisa.arcioni@sydney.edu.au

Twitter: @elisa_arcioni

Webpage: https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff/elisa-arcioni.html

Guillaume Tusseau

Guillaume Tusseau was trained both in political science and law. After holding positions in the Universities of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and Rouen, he is currently Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, in Paris, where he is Head of the law department, and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. He has been a member of the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature (French High Council for the Judiciary) from 2015 to 2019. His main areas of interest are comparative constitutional law and legal theory, both fields in which he has extensively taught and published. Among his latest publications are: ‘The Legal Philosophy of Jeremy Bentham’: Essays on ‘Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence’, Guillaume Tusseau (ed.) (Routledge, Routledge Research in Constitutional Law Series, 2014), ‘Debating Legal Pluralism and Constitutionalism: New Trajectories for Legal Theory in the Global Age’, Guillaume Tusseau (ed.) (Springer, 2020), ‘Contentieux constitutionnel comparé. Une introduction critique au droit processuel constitutionnel’ (Lextenso, 2021) and ‘Droit constitutionnel et institutions politiques’ (6th ed., Le Seuil, 2021).

Email: guillaume.tusseau@sciencespo.fr

Twitter: @GTusseau 

Webpage: https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-de-droit/en/profile/tusseau-guillaume.html. 

Rahul Hemrajani 

Rahul Hemrajani is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. His research centres around studying comparative judicial institutions, including how country-level factors condition decision making by judges in a court. For his dissertation, he develops and applies a cross-national time-series measure of judicial legitimacy of court systems in over 150 countries. His published and ongoing work also focuses on judging in the Supreme Court of India, protest policing and heuristic biases in judicial decision-making. 

Email: rahulh@email.sc.edu

Twitter: @rhoiotaphi

Webpage: https://rahul.uofsccreate.org/

Ajla Škrbić

Dr. Ajla Škrbić is an Associate Professor of International Law from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). She joined the Department of Law at the Freie Universität Berlin as a Georg Forster Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) in 2021. Her postdoctoral research is concerned with the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in the former Yugoslav states of BiH, Croatia, and Serbia. 

Dr. Škrbić is an official lecturer in International Law for the Civil Service Agency of BiH, an official educator of judges and prosecutors in the Federation of BiH, and an expert representative of the academic community at the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance in BiH. 

She researches and publishes mostly on the transformation of post-Yugoslav states in the aftermath of the wars in the 1990s and current challenges these states face in the context of international law and EU integration.

Email: ajlaskrbic@gmail.com 

Twitter: @AjlaSkrbic

Luiz Eduardo Camargo Outeiro Hernandes

Luiz Eduardo Camargo Outeiro Hernandes is a PhD candidate at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo and visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in  Heidelberg as well as visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law in  Luxembourg.

His research interests include democracy, human rights law and constitutional law. His research also focuses on  deliberative courts and democratic legitimacy in the pluralist and complex society. 

He is currently working on projects relating to the dialogue among the Inter-American Human Rights System and Brazilian Supreme Court”.

Email: luizhernandes.pr@gmail.com

 Twitter: @LuizHernandes

Webpage: https://pucsp.academia.edu/LuizEduardoCamargoOuteiroHernandes

Tania Atilano

Tania Atilano studied law at ITAM University in Mexico City. After her studies, she lectured in criminal law at ITAM and worked as a Public Prosecutor. Tania holds an LLM from the LMU Munich and a Juris Doctor from the Humboldt University of Berlin where she wrote a thesis on the incorporation and implementation of International Criminal Law in Mexico, published by Asser Press in 2021. Currently, she collaborates with a research collective toward a new Criminal Code for Mexico and is also doing research on the laws of war in nineteenth-century Mexico. Her research interests lie in the field of criminal law, the history of international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. Tania is based in Zurich, Switzerland. 

Email: tania.atilano@gmail.com

Twitter: @tanixchel

Juliette McIntyre

Juliette McIntyre has been a Lecturer in Law at UniSA since 2016. She holds a first class LL.M. in International Law from the University of Cambridge, and a BA and LLB/LP with Honours. She is presently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne. Her particular area of specialism is international courts and tribunals, with a focus on procedure.

Ms McIntyre writes commentary on current international legal issues for outlets such as The Interpreter, Völkerrechtsblog, EJIL:Talk!, The Conversation, and CIL Dialogues. Her academic work has been published in a number of international journals including AJIL Unbound, East Asia Forum, Michigan Journal of International Law, Leiden International Law Journal, and the Ukrainian Law Review. She also has significant litigation experience, including as a Judge’s Associate at the Supreme Court of South Australia, and as counsel in cases before the International Court of Justice and other international tribunals. 

Previously, Ms McIntyre has held academic posts at Charles Darwin University and Thompson Rivers University in Canada, and has been the recipient of the Law Foundation of South Australia Fellowship.

Ms McIntyre is active on social media and has been formally sanctioned by the Russian government for her work in respect of Ukraine.

Email: juliette.mcintyre@unisa.edu.au

Twitter: @juliettemm

Website: https://people.unisa.edu.au/Juliette.McIntyre#About-me

Mihreteab Taye

Dr. Mihreteab is a Research Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. His principal research areas of interest are international law, comparative law, and law and society, specifically focusing on human rights and international courts and institutions in Africa. His research aims to uncover African regional courts’ relevance and challenges, particularly the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACtHPR) and the East African Court of Justice (EACJ). His research findings on the EACJ reveal how lawyers in Africa try to create legal accountability in political systems with weak judiciaries and how they build and rely upon international networks to, at times, engage and escape Africa’s legal institutions. His research has been published in journals such as the African Journal of International and Comparative Law and Temple International and Comparative Law Journal. His current research focuses on the crucial question of whether regional courts in Africa are mere pawns in the game of domestic politics that has significant implications for the protection of human rights and the stability of the human rights system. Specifically, he examines the recent withdrawal of individual access to the ACtHPR by Rwanda, Tanzania, Benin, and Ivory Coast and evaluates the implications of such actions on the effectiveness and authority of the ACtHPR and other regional courts in Africa. Through this research, Dr. Mihreteab aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how African regional courts can be reinforced and safeguarded and the best path forward for the regional human rights court. Dr. Mihreteab was a Hauser Global Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU from 2021-2022. He also held visiting research positions at the University of Graz and Northwestern University. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Center of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Copenhagen University, an LLM degree in International Law (Cum Laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and an LLB (Cum Laude) from Addis Ababa University.

Email: mihreteab@nyu.edu

Twitter: @mihreSigge  

Webpage: https://chrgj.org/people/mihreteab-taye/

Emre Turkut

Dr. Emre Turkut is a post-doctoral researcher at Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights and an affiliated researcher at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI). Emre’s research covers a variety of fields within the domain(s) of public international law, international human rights law and comparative constitutional law including states of emergency, counter-terrorism, self-determination movements, authoritarian rule of law and judicial politics in authoritarian regimes. His research outputs have appeared in top-tier journals and received several scholarly awards including an honorable mention for the American Society of Comparative Law’s prestigious Colin B. Picker Prize in Comparative Law in 2020. In 2021-2022, he was a re:constitution fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and the European Court of Human Rights. Along with his academic work, Emre is frequently contacted by NGOs and global media platforms to give expert opinions on issues of human rights, international law and Turkish law. He also serves as a legal consultant and expert witness on Turkish law to several private entities.

Email: e.turkut@hertie-school.org & emreturkut@gmail.com

Twitter: @emreturkut 

Webpages: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/research/faculty-and-researchers/profile/person/turkut-1 and https://www.law.ugent.be/grili/members/affiliate-members/emre-turkut

Ezgi Yildiz

Dr. Ezgi Yildiz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and a research affiliate at the Global Governance Center at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where she used to work for the Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order (PATHS) project, funded by the European Research Council. Previously, she led the Testing the Focal Point Theory of International Adjudication: An Empirical Analysis of the ICJ’s Impact on Maritime Delimitation project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

She was appointed as a member of the Expert Group for the Implementation of the EU’s Anti-Torture Regulation (Regulation 2019/125) for the European Commission’s Foreign Policy Instruments (2021-2023). She was also recently elected as a member of the Coordinating Committee of the European Society of International Law (ESIL)’s Interest Group on Social Sciences and International Law.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations with a Minor in International Law (summa cum laude avec félicitations du jury) from the Geneva Graduate Institute. She conducts interdisciplinary research on international relations and international law and specialize in international courts, human rights, and ocean governance. Her research has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Doc CH, Early Postdoc Mobility, and Spark grants.

Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.  In addition, she spent some time as a Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM, Institute for Human Sciences) in Vienna.

Email: ezgi.yildiz@csulb.edu

Twitter: @ezgiyildiz

Webpage: https://www.ezgiyildiz.com