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Elif Askin

Dr. iur., MLaw, Research Fellow 2013 - 2019, Senior Research Fellow 2019 - 2021, Senior Research Affiliate 2021 - 2024

Main Fields of Research:

Public International Law; International, European and National Human Rights Law; Socio-economic Rights; Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights; Global Governance; Comparative Constitutional Law; Swiss Public Law; Turkish Constitutional Law

Academic Career until 2021

2/2021 - 2/2024: Senior Research Affiliate at the MPIL

since 2/2021:Habilitation, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich

since 2020: Lecturer at the Europa-Institut of the Saarland University

11/2019-1/2021: Senior Research Fellow at the MPIL

2019: Ph.D. (summa cum laude) at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel, Switzerland

10/2014-9/2019: PhD candidate; Supervisor: Prof. Anne Peters

PhD project: "The Extraterritorial Application of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Times of Globalization"

2015: Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa, funded by the Humboldt Foundation

2014-2021: Co-Organizer of the Human Rights Discussion Group of the MPIL

9/2013-10/2019: Research Fellow at the MPIL

2013: Research Assistant to Prof. Anne Peters, chair of public international law and constitutional law, Law Faculty, University of Basel, Switzerland

2012-2013: Research Assistant to Prof. Sabine Gless, chair of criminal law and criminal procedure, Law Faculty, University of Basel (research in the field of international criminal law)

2012-2013: Legal Clerkship in a Swiss law firm

2012: Legal Clerkship in the legal department of the Government of Basel, Switzerland

2011: Master in International Law, Law Faculty, University of Basel

2010-2016: Research Assistant to Prof. Denise Brühl-Moser in the field of public law, international law and European law, Switzerland

2010: Internship in the diplomatic section of the Swiss Embassy in Cairo, Egypt

2010: Bachelor of Law, Law Faculty, University of Basel

2008-2012: Student Research Assistant to Prof. Anne Peters, chair of public international law and constitutional law, Law Faculty, University of Basel

2006-2010: Law Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland