Scholar Spotlight: Ezgi Yildiz

The Graduate Institute Geneva

This week's spotlight is for Ezgi Yildiz, a recent SSN member and postdoctoral fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She met with United Nations officials this week in New York to answer questions on torture-free trade and the prohibition of torture. Ezgi's research gave UN members an academic perspective on torture as it fits into human rights.

Ezgi Yildiz

Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate Institute; and Postdoctoral Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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Yildiz is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and a postodoctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. She conducts interdisciplinary research on international relations and international law, and specializes in international courts and human rights with a focus on the European Court of Human Rights, and the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. Yildiz is conducting research on the prohibition on torture and investigating how the institutional practices of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights shape international human rights norms.

 

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