Jinan BASTAKI

Jinan Bastaki is Associate Professor of Legal Studies. She holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an LLM from the University of California (Berkeley), and a PhD from the University of London (SOAS). Bastaki is an international law scholar focusing on forced displacement, human rights, refugee law, and citizenship, and she has been working on international law and Palestine for over a decade. In 2018, her paper on nationality-based detention of migrants won the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law's (IIHL) best essay prize. Her work has appeared in major publications, including the Journal of Refugee Studies, Citizenship Studies, Refugee Survey Quarterly, and others. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford's Center for Socio-Legal Studies, and has taught for the IIHL.