Dr. Emre Turkut is a post-doctoral researcher at Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights. He received his PhD in international law from Ghent University and remains an affiliated researcher at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI). Emre’s research covers a variety of fields within the domain(s) of public international law, international human rights law and comparative constitutional law including states of emergency, derogations, counter-terrorism, self-determination movements, transnational judicial dialogue and judicial politics in authoritarian regimes. His research outputs have appeared in top-tier journals and received several scholarly awards and prizes including an honorable mention for the American Society of Comparative Law’s prestigious Colin B. Picker Prize in Comparative Law in 2020. Emre previously taught at the Riga Graduate School of Law, and held a Swedish Institute visiting fellowship at Uppsala University (2018-19) and a DAAD fellowship at Hertie School (2019-20). In 2021-2022, he was a re:constitution fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the European Court of Human Rights. Along with his academic work, Emre is frequently contacted by NGOs and global media platforms to give expert opinions on issues of human rights, international law and Turkish law. He also serves as a legal consultant and expert witness on Turkish law to several private entities.
