New Postdoc at iCourts - Dilek Kurban
Dilek Kurban is a socio-legal scholar based in Berlin, currently a post-doctoral fellow at iCourts at the University of Copenhagen and an Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School. She obtained her PhD from Maastricht University Faculty of Law in 2018. She also holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School and a Master in International Affairs from Columbia University. She completed her Max Weber post-doctoral fellowship at the European University Institute in 2022. Her PhD dissertation received the 2018 Erasmus Dissertation Prize in the Netherlands and was published as a book titled Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict (CUP, 2020), which has been awarded a Special Mention by the 2021 International Society of Public Law (ICON.S) Book Prize Committee. Kurban’s research interests are regional human rights courts, state violence, legal mobilization and rule of law, with a thematic focus on authoritarian regimes and a regional focus on Turkey, Europe and, most recently, Latin America. Currently, she is working on a research project comparing the effectiveness of European and inter-American human rights courts in hard cases.