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Asli Ü. Bâli
Acting Professor of Law
B.A., Williams College, 1993
M.Phil., Cambridge University, Emmanuel College, 1995
M.A., Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1999
J.D., Yale, 1999
Ph.D., Princeton University (expected 2009)
UCLA Law faculty since 2008
bali@law.ucla.edu |
Professor Bâli is Acting Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. She teaches Public International Law and a seminar on the Laws of War. She joins the UCLA faculty from the Yale Law School where she was the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow in Law and Coordinator of the Middle East Legal Forum.
A graduate of Williams College, Cambridge University, where she was a Herchel Smith Scholar, and the Yale Law School, she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an articles editor of the Yale Journal of Human Rights & Development. Bâli is also completing a Ph.D. in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.
After graduating from law school, Bâli practiced law with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York and Paris, where, in addition to representing a variety of corporate clients, she engaged in extensive pro bono work relating to immigration, civil liberties, and international human rights.
Bâli’s research interests focus on public international law generally, including the intersection of international law and international relations, as well as issues of non-proliferation, human rights and humanitarian law. She also has a strong interest in the comparative law of the Middle East. Recent work includes The Legality-Legitimacy Debate in the Context of Nonproliferation (forthcoming, 2009, United Nations University Press); Interventionism and its Discontents in the Middle East (co-authored working paper with Aziz Rana under review); and From Subjects to Citizens? The Shifting Paradigm of Electoral Authoritarianism in the Middle East, published in Middle East Law and Governance, January 2009.
