Başak Çalı
Başak Çalı
International Law
Hertie School of Governance
Germany
Biography
BaÅŸak Çalı is Professor of International Law at the Hertie School of Governance and Director of the Center for Global Public Law at Koç University, Istanbul. Her research interests are international law, human rights law, and the prospects of global public law in a multi-level legal order. Çalı is the Secretary General of the European Society of International Law, Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press United Nations Human Rights Case-Law Reports, a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex and a Senior Research Fellow at the Pluricourts Centre at the University of Oslo. She has been a Council of Europe expert on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) since 2002. She has trained members of the judiciary and acted as a litigation advisor and trainer to non-governmental organisations and lawyers on European and comparative human rights law. She received her PhD in International Law from the University of Essex in 2003.
Research Interest
Political Science
Publications
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Çalı and Gri ffin, ‘International Humanitarian Law’ in Çalı ed., International Law for International Relations, Oxford University Press, (2009)
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Çalı, ‘International Human Rights Law’ in Çalı ed., International Law for International Relations, Oxford University Press, (2009)
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Çalı, ‘Theories of International Relations in International Law’ in Çalı ed., International Law for International Relations, Oxford University Press, (2009)
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Çalı, ‘Human Rights Treaties: Specialised Rules for Treaty Interpretation ’ in Hollis ed., The Law of Treaties , Oxford University Press (2012) (Received the American Society of International Law Book Award)
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Çalı, ‘The Legitimacy of Human Rights Treaty Bodies: An Indirect Instrumentalist Defense ’ in Follesdal and Ulfstein eds., The Legitimacy of Human Rights Regimes , Cambridge University Press (2013)
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Çalı, ‘ Does the remedy jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights do enough for media freedom?’ in Journalism at Risk: Threats, Perspectives and Challenges , Council of Europe Publishing (2015)
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Çalı, ‘Towards a Responsbile Domestic Courts Doctrine? The European Court of Human Rights and t he Variable Standard of Judicial Review of Domestic Court s in "Shifting Centres of Gravity", Arnardóttir and Buyse eds, Routledge, ( 2016 ) 144 - 161.
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Çalı, ‘Enforcement ’ in Langford and Porter eds., The Optional Protocol to the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Commentary, (University of Pretoria Press, 2016)
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Çalı, Comparing the Support of the EU and the US to International Human Rights Law: Worlds T oo Far Apart? 13(4) International Journal of Constitutional Law (2015) 901 - 922.
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Çalı, Ghanea and Jones, ‘ Big Promises, Small Gains: Domestic Effects of Human Rights Treaty Ratification in the Member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council ’, 38(1) Human Rights Quarterly (2016) 21 - 3 5.
