Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of LawCentre for Comparative and European Constitutional Studies · Teaching: Making and Breaking Constitutions (Fall 2026)
2025 – presentMarie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law. My research lies at the intersection of comparative judicial politics and constitutional law, with a focus on the political foundations of the rule of law and constitutionalism. In my postdoctoral project TRACE, I use natural language processing methods to trace informal and implicit constitutional change. My dissertation on constitutional courts in times of political crisis received the Best Dissertation Honorable Mention from the Law and Society Association in 2023.
APPOINTMENTS
Lecturer, Özyeğin University, International RelationsInternational Law · Comparative Politics · Comparative Constitutional Law · Politics of Human Rights · Political Anthropology · Law and Society in the Global South
2022 – 2025Lecturer, Kadir Has University, School of LawPolitics of Human Rights
Spring 2024Graduate Assistant, Boğaziçi University, Political SciencePolitical Economy · Middle East Politics · International Relations · Turkish Foreign Policy · American Government
2014 – 2022EDUCATION
PhD, Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi UniversityDissertation: Constitutional Courts During Political Upheavals: The Case of the TCC · Supervisors: Prof. Mine Eder, Prof. Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley)
2016 – 2022Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow, UC Berkeley, School of Law
2019 – 2020MA, Political Science and International Relations, Yıldız Technical University
2009 – 2012BA, International Relations, Kadir Has University
2005 – 2009BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Changing Roles: Judicial Authority and Regime Transformation in TurkeyUnder review, Cambridge University Press
2026JOURNAL ARTICLES & WORKING PAPERS
"Proportionality Without Uniformity: A Computational Analysis of Doctrinal Scaffolding Across Qualified Rights in the European Court of Human Rights"Forthcoming, Human Rights Law Review
2026"The Turkish Constitutional Court Database: Norm Review and Individual Application Decisions, 1962–2025"Revise & resubmit, Journal of Law and Courts
2026"Stability and Selective Rewiring in the Turkish Constitutional Court (1962–2024): A Diachronic Analysis Using Contextual Word Embeddings"Under review, Artificial Intelligence and Law
2026"Selective Noncompliance: Constitutional Court Judgments and Ordinary Court Resistance in Turkey"Under review, International Journal of Constitutional Law
2026"When Parliaments Stop Discussing Policy: Speech Composition under Personalist Executive Dominance in Turkey, 2002–2025"Under review, European Journal of Political Research
2026"Written Dissent under Authoritarian Consolidation: Judicial Dissent in the Turkish Constitutional Court, 1962–2025"Working paper
2026"When Every Concept Looks Contested: Measurement Artifacts in Embedding-Based Claims about Political Meaning"Working paper
2026OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Ortadoğu'da Devlet ve İktidar: Otoriter Rejimler Üzerine Bir İnceleme (State and Power in the Middle East: An Inquiry into Authoritarianism), MetisIn Turkish · sold over 3,000 copies
2014"Otoriter Rejimler ve Bilginin Yönetimi" (Authoritarian Regimes and the Management of Information), Birikim, 322In Turkish
2016Review of Ryan Gingeras, Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey, New Perspectives on Turkey, 52, 165–169
2015DATASETS
TBMM Parliamentary Proceedings Corpus, 1950–20232.4M speaker turns · Zenodo: doi:10.5281/zenodo.19713325 · CC BY 4.0
2026Turkish Constitutional Court Database, 1962–2025Release upon publication of companion article
forthcomingCONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS (SELECTED)
"A Relational Theory of Judicial Roles" — IPSA RC09 workshop Court Roles in the Current Authoritarian Moment, UNAM, Mexico City
10/2026"What Do Static and Contextual Embeddings Measure Differently?" — SISP 2026, University of Trento
9/2026"Measuring Semantic Change in Constitutional Reasoning" — ESELS Annual Conference, Ljubljana
6/2026Summer Academy on Large Language Models for Social Science (LLM4SS), Columbia University
5–6/2026"Measuring Hidden Conceptual Change with AI" (poster) — AI for Social Science Research Methods, Yale University
5/2026"The Judicial Tug of War: Turkey's Experience with Judicial Elections" — LSA Annual Meeting, Lisbon
7/2022"After Hegemony: Constitutional Hardball and the Limits of Hegemonic Court Power" — Public Law Conference, University of Texas
3/2021"Political Foundations of Independent Judiciary and Institutional Change" — LSA Annual Meeting, Denver
5/2020"Transformation of Turkish Judiciary: The Role of Islamic Groups and Informal Networks" — LSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC
6/2019INVITED TALKS
"Comparative Judicial Review: Turkish Experience" — Prof. Martin Shapiro's Comparative Constitutional Law course, UC Berkeley Legal Studies
3/2020"Political Sources of Judicial Activism in Hybrid Regimes" — UC Berkeley, CSLS Visiting Scholar Speaker Series
5/2020"What Political Science Can Tell Us About the Courts: Lessons for the US Supreme Court" — Sonoma State University
1/2020FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
2025 – 2027Best Dissertation Honorable Mention, Law and Society Association
2023LSA Junior Scholars Workshop Travel Grant, Denver
2020Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship
2019 – 2020LANGUAGES
Turkish (native) · English (full competency) · Spanish (B1)