Speaker

• Ash Ü. Bâli, President of Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA)

Ash Ü. Bâli is a 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.