Aslı Ü. Bâli

Aslı Ü. Bâli is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Bâli’s teaching and research interests include public international law—particularly human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East. She has written on the nuclear nonproliferation regime, humanitarian intervention, the roles of race and empire in the interpretation and enforcement of international law, the role of judicial independence in constitutional transitions, federalism and decentralization in the Middle East, and constitutional design in religiously divided societies. 

Bâli currently serves as co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Middle East Division of Human Rights Watch and as chair of both the Task Force on Civil and Human Rights of the Middle East Studies Association and the MESA Global Academy. She is also on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law.