Dr. Başak Çali

Lecturer in Human Rights

• Name: Dr. Başak Çali
• Position: Senior Lecturer in Human Rights
• Room: 3.01
• Telephone: 020 7679 4990
• Fax: 020 7679 4969
• Email: b.cali@ucl.ac.uk

Introduction

Dr. Başak Çalı is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at UCL's Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on normative and sociological approaches to international law and institutions, with a special interest in international human rights law. She uses interpretive and qualitative research methods. She has published on humanitarian intervention, the politics of human rights lawmaking, and the impact of international human rights law in domestic politics.

Dr Çalı is currently engaged in two major research projects. First as principle investigator in a three-year project focusing on the legitimacy of human rights courts, and the enforcement of human rights judgments. This is funded by the ESRC. Working papers and research output from this project can be found on the project website. The second is as an expert on a British Academy-funded project studying the United Nations Universal Periodic Review.

Dr. Çalı has extensive experience in acting as an advisor, trainer and litigator in the field of human rights law. She has worked with governmental and non-governmental organisations, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, NATO, Interights, the Aire-Centre and ESCR-Net. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and written for Turkey's Radikal newspaper. She currently has her own case before the European Court of Human Rights concerning women’s right to identity.

Başak is interested in doctoral applications that concern normative and sociological approaches to international law and human rights.

• Başak Çali's research papers on the Social Sciences Research Network
• SPP's current publications for Başak Çali

Main publications

Books

• Başak Çali, ed., International Law for International Relations, Oxford University Press, 2009. Read more about this book [External Link].

• S. Meckled-Garcia and Başak Çali, eds., The Legalisation of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Rights Law, (Routledge, 2006). Read more about this book [External Link].

Refereed Journal Articles

• Çali, 'The Logics of Supranational Human Rights Litigation, Official Acknowledgment and Human Rights Reform: The Southeast Turkey cases before the European Court of Human Rights between 1996-2006' Law and Social Inquiry, Volume 35 Issue 2 (Spring 2010), p 311-337

• Çali, 'On Interpretivism and International Law' European Journal of International Law, Vol. 20 (2009) No. 3, 805-822.

• Çali, 'The Purposes of the European Human Rights System: One or Many?' [2008] European Human Rights Law Review, Issue 3, pp. 299-306.

• Rodley and Çali, 'Kosovo Revisited: Humanitarian Intervention on the Fault Lines of International Law' Human Rights Law Review Volume 7, Number 2, 2007, pp. 275-297.

• Çali, 'Balancing Human Rights: Methodological Problems with Weights, Scales and Proportions' Human Rights Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1, 2007, pp. 251-270.

• Çali, On Legal Cosmoplitanism: Divergences between political theory and international law, Leiden Journal of International Law 19(4) (2006).

• Çali, 'Bargaining Transnationalism: The European Court of Human Rights' Finnish Yearbook of International Law Volume XV, 2004, 111-128

Book Chapters

• Çali, 'From Bangladesh to Responsibility to Protect: The Legality and Implementation Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention' in Gilbert ed., The Delivery of Human Rights, Routledge, forthcoming 2010
• Çali, Between Legal Cosmopolitanism and a Society of States: The Limits of International Justice at the European Court of Human Rights' in Dembour and Kelly eds., Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007) pp. 111-133. Read more about this book [External Link]

• Çali, 'Human Rights Discourse in Turkey: Domestic Human Rights NGOs' in Arat ed., Human Rights in Turkey: Policies and Prospects (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) 217-232.Received the American Library Association Choice Award of Outstanding Academic Titles 2007. Read more about this book [External Link]

• Meckled-Garcia and Çali, 'Lost in Translation: The Human Rights Ideal and International Human Rights Law' in The Legalisation of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2006) 11-31.

• Çali and Ergun, 'Global Governance and Domestic Politics: Fragmented Visions', in Lederer and Muller ed., Criticising Global Governance (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005) 161-176. Read more about this book [External Link]

Shorter Articles and Book Reviews

• Cali, 'Supranational Organisations in International Relations', 39 POLITIKA: Annual Journal(2009) 10-16.
• Çali,' 'Yeniden kadının soyadı' (A Woman's Right to her Name) Radikal 06.12.2009
• Çali, 'Uyanma Vakti' (Awakening-time in Xhanthi) Radikal 18.11.2007.
• Çali, 'Leyla Sahin: Out of Scale Proportionality?' 15 Interights Bulletin (2006).
• Indigenous Peoples, Resource Management and Global Rights, 27(3) POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2006).
• Çali, 'lskeçe'de Uyku Vakti' (Siesta-time in Xhanthi) Radikal 17.07.2005.
• Çali 'How would you like your legal change done today, Madame?' European Society of International Law Inaugural Conference Proceedings (2004)
• International Citizen’s Tribunals: Mobilising Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights, 1 Political Studies Review (2003) 465.