Ergun Cakal

Ergün Cakal

Enrolled PhD student, PhD fellow


  1. 2025
  2. In preparation

    Law and torture: Widening the apertures, from the doctrinal to the critical

    Cakal, Ergün, 2025, (In preparation) (Cambridge University Press).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  3. 2024
  4. Published

    Book Review: Upholding the Prohibition of Torture: The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights by Andrea Carcano and Tullio Scovazzi

    Cakal, Ergün, 4 Apr 2024, In: Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  5. Published

    Registering time in recognising torturous harm: Figuring the single, plural and historical in torture’s adjudication

    Cakal, Ergün, 4 Mar 2024, In: Social & Legal Studies. 33, 2, p. 276 296 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Book Review: Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice by Malcolm Evans

    Cakal, Ergün, 1 Mar 2024, In: Human Rights Law Review. 24, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  7. In preparation

    Book review. The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law by Lutz Oette

    Cakal, Ergün, 2024, (In preparation) In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) .

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  8. 2023
  9. Published
  10. Published

    Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning

    Cakal, Ergün, 2023, In: Theoretical Criminology. 27, 3, p. 519-521 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  11. Published

    Isolating children in detention: Cautioning international comparisons

    Cakal, Ergün, 2023, In: Alternative Law Journal. 48, 3, p. 166-171 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Law and torture: Contemporary legal scholarship on torture, from the Doctrinal to the Critical

    Cakal, Ergün, 2023, In: International Community Law Review. 25, 5, p. 397-425 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Torture and progress, past and promised: Problematising torture’s evolving interpretation

    Cakal, Ergün, 2023, In: International Journal of Law in Context. 19, 2, p. 236-254 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. 2022
  15. Published

    Assessing (and Making Sense of) Severity: Conceptualising and Contextualising Torture’s Core

    Cakal, Ergün, 2022, In: Nordic Journal of International Law. 91, 2, p. 284-309 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Book Review. Corina Heri, Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR (Hart Publishing, 2021)

    Cakal, Ergün, 2022, In: Leiden Journal of International Law. 35, 3, p. 731-734 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  17. Published

    Cruelty and corpo-reality: Connecting technologies and practices integral to torture’s infliction and investigation

    Cakal, Ergün, 2022, In: Journal of Human Rights Practice. p. 1-17 18 p., huac045.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Entangling Intentionality: Reflections on Torture and Structure

    Cakal, Ergün, 2022, In: Social Justice : A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order. 48, 3, p. 1-29 29 p., 1.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Hunger and torture: Assessing the adequacy of prison food under international law

    Cakal, Ergün, 2022, In: Torture. 32, 3, p. 16-30 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Sensing suffering: On common-sense and compassion in the legal imagination and recognition of torture

    Cakal, Ergün, 2022, In: London Review of International Law. 10, 3, p. 337-366 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. 2021
  22. At the Threshold of Justiciable Violence: Configuring and Contesting Torture’s Production

    Cakal, Ergün, 26 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Law, Culture and the Humanities.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Discovering law’s violence in post-coup Myanmar

    Cakal, Ergün, 19 May 2021

    Research output: Other contributionNet publication - Internet publicationResearch

  24. Published

    Book Review. Danielle Celermajer, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach

    Cakal, Ergün, Jefferson, A. M. & Martin, T. M., 2021, In: Punishment and Society. 23, 3, p. 436–439 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  25. Published

    Book review. Everyday justice in Myanmar: Informal resolutions and state evasion in a time of contested transition, edited by Helene Maria Kyed

    Cakal, Ergün, 2021, In: The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. 53, 1, p. 154-157 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  26. Published

    Book review. Lavrysen, Laurens and Mavronicola, Natasa (eds), Coercive Human Rights: Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR, Oxford, Hart Publishing

    Cakal, Ergün, 2021, In: Modern Law Review. 85, 3, p. 830-833 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  27. Published

    Book review. Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs

    Cakal, Ergün, 2021, In: Human Rights Quarterly. 43, 4, p. 827-831 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  28. Perception, practice and proximity: Qualifying threats as psychological torture in international law

    Cakal, Ergün, 2021, In: Torture. 31, 1, p. 19-36 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. “For Such Purposes As”: Towards an embedded and embodied understanding of torture’s purpose

    Cakal, Ergün, 2021, In: State Crime Journal. 9, 2, p. 152-168 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. 2020
  31. Published

    Pluralism, Tolerance and Control: On the Millet System and the Question of Minorities

    Cakal, Ergün, 2020, In: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. 27, 1, p. 34-65

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. 2019
  33. Political Violence and Its Discontents: A Critique of Refugee Status as Purely Civilian and Humanitarian

    Cakal, Ergün, 9 Jun 2019, In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies. 10, 1, p. 7-40

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Befogging reason, undermining will: Understanding the prohibition of sleep deprivation as torture and ill-treatment in international law

    Cakal, Ergün, 2019, In: Torture. 29, 2, p. 11 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  35. 2018
  36. Published

    Debility, dependency and dread: On the conceptual and evidentiary dimensions of psychological torture

    Cakal, Ergün, 1 Aug 2018, In: Torture. 28, 2, p. 15-37

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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