Prof. Berdal ARAL

Professor Berdal Aral completed his PhD on “Turkey and International Society from a Critical Legal Perspective” in 1994 at the University of Glasgow. His main areas of interest, both in his scholarship and teaching, include international law and human rights. He has written four books in Turkish, namely “The Right of Self-Defence under International Law” (1999), “Collective Rights as Third Generation Human Rights” (2010), “From Global Security to Global Hegemony: The UN System and the Muslim World” (2016), and “Perpetual Betrayal: The Palestinian Problem and International Law under Imperialism’s Shadow” (2019). He has also published numerous articles, both in English and Turkish, on the topics mentioned above, as well as on international organizations, the search for integration in the Muslim world, and Turkish foreign policy. He wrote an entry for Oxford Bibliographies on International Law in Turkish which was published online in 2021. Among the journals in which his articles have appeared are European Journal of International Law, Human Rights Quarterly, and Journal of the History of International Law. Prof. Aral currently teaches at the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Medeniyet University.