New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Isil Kurnaz
Işıl Kurnaz is a PhD researcher at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. Her PhD thesis focuses on Strategic Human Rights Litigation and Culture Wars Before European Court of Human Rights. She has been researching in the intersecting interests between the religious/ faith-based litigants and feminist/gender equality-based litigants under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Martinico from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. She is a lawyer with specific interest in international human rights law, international law and constitutional law. She obtained her LL.M. degree with distinction from Lund University with a merit-based Swedish Government Scholarship in the name of Anna Lindh by the Swedish Institute where she has also been awarded Lund University Global Scholarship. She worked as a consultant in the United Nations Women Chapter and as a trainer in various organizations such as Amnesty International, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation regarding gender equality, human rights, constitutional jurisprudence and strategic human rights litigation before ECHR.
As a consultant in UN, she has written the report on equal political representation of women and the LGBTİQ+ community (co-authored with Aslıhan Tekin from the European Women's Lobby). She also worked on the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Convention), as a legal consultant at the International Child Center. She is a registered lawyer at the Ankara Bar Association, a member of the Women's Coalition in Turkey and a member of the Network for Future Global Leaders by the Swedish Institute. Her personal interests are literature, philosophy, poetry.
Işıl Kurnaz will be a Visiting Researcher at iCourts from 1 February - 1 August 2025.