Authors

Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana

 

Aslı Ü. Bâli is Assistant Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, where she teaches public international law, international human rights, and laws of war. Her research interests also include comparative law of the Middle East. She is co-editor of the Turkey Page.

Aziz Rana is an Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. His book, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2010), reassesses key episodes in US constitutional development, from the Revolution to the New Deal, through the comparative lens of settler colonialism. Rana`s current book project, titled "No Other Gods: The Rise of Constitutional Nationalism in America," explores how the American Federal Constitution became a document of near-universal national veneration in the twentieth century and the implications of such veneration for popular practices of dissent.

ARTICLES BY Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana

  • Remember Syria?

    Remember Syria?

    The summit in Helsinki between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was supposed to put the spotlight on Syria. Instead, that country was again pushed to the margins as attention fixated on whether or not Trump’s comments on Russian meddling in the elections were 

  • Why There Is No Military Solution to the Syrian Conflict

    Why There Is No Military Solution to the Syrian Conflict

    Today, as violence intensifies in Syria, external powers, including the United States, are openly debating direct intervention. Such intervention is justified as serving multiple goals at once: it is a means of securing chemical weapons caches; a mechanism to protect the civilian population; and..