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Asli Ü. Bâli

Professor

E-mail: bali@law.ucla.edu

Professor Bâli is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. She teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights and a seminar on the Laws of War. She joined UCLA from the Yale Law School where she was the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow in Law, and coordinator of the Middle East Legal Forum.

Bâli is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an articles editor of the Yale Journal of Human Rights & Development. Her Ph.D. in Political Science is from Princeton University, where her dissertation concerned the challenge of enforcement in the nuclear non-proliferation regime. After law school, she worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in the New York and Paris, France offices.

Bâli’s current research interests focus on public international law, arms control, human rights and international humanitarian law. She also has a strong interest in the comparative law of the Middle East. Recent work includes Negotiating Non-Proliferation: International Law and Delegation in the Iranian Nuclear Crisis (2014); Courts and Constitutional Transition: Lessons from the Turkish Case (2013); Pax Arabica?: Provisional Sovereignty and Intervention in the Arab Uprisings (2012); and Beyond Legality and Legitimacy: Intervention and the Eroding Norm of Nonproliferation (2011).

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University
J.D., Yale
M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
M.Phil., Cambridge University, Emmanuel College
B.A., Williams College

Publications

Articles and Chapters

Negotiating Non-Proliferation: International Law and Delegation in the Iranian Nuclear Crisis, 61 UCLA Law Review 232 (2014). Full Text
Courts and Constitutional Transition: Lessons from the Turkish Case, 11 International Journal of Constitutional Law 666-701 (2013). Abstract
Pax Arabica?: Provisional Sovereignty and Intervention in the Arab Uprisings, 42 California Western International Law Journal 321 (2012).
The Perils of Judicial Independence: Constitutional Transition and the Turkish Example, 52 Virginia Journal of International Law 235-320 (2012).
American Overreach: Strategic Interests and Millennial Ambitions in the Middle East (with Aziz Raa), 15 Geopolitics 210-39 (2010). Full Text
From Subjects to Citizens? The Shifting Paradigm of Electoral Authoritarianism in the Middle East, 1 Middle East Law & Governance 38-89 (2009). Abstract
Iranian Nuclear Policy, in At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation? (edited by Richard Falk and David Krieger, Palgrave, 2009).
Scapegoating the Vulnerable: Preventive Detention of Immigrants in America’s “War on Terror, 38 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 25-69 (2006). Full Text
Justice Under Occupation: Rule of Law and the Ethics of Nation-Building in Iraq, 30 Yale Journal of International Law 431 (2005). Full Text
International Law & Rights-Based Remedies: Settlements in the Israel-Palestine Conflict, 28 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 387 (2005).
International Law and the Challenge of Terrorism, 9 Journal of Islamic Law and Culture (2004).
Changes in Immigration Law and Practice After September 11: A Practitioner’s Perspective, 2 Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal 161 (2003).
Stretching the Limits of International Law: The Challenge of Terrorism, 8 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 403 (2002).

Courses

International Human Rights Law (Law 273)
Third World Approaches to International Law (Law 561A/B)
Public International Law (Law 270)