Asli Ü. Bâli

Politics, PhD candidate

Asli Bâli is a graduate student, ABD, in the Department of Politics. Her dissertation — "Similar States, Disparate Treatment" — considers the inconsistent enforcement of international legal rules in instances of similar norm-violations and the implications of such inconsistency for rule-based order in the international system. Her broader interests include public international law; international political theory; and international relations. Ms. Bâli is currently serving as the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow at the Yale Law School, where she is working on the completion of her dissertation. She will take up a position as assistant professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles in January 2009.

Bâli earned her BA, summa cum laude with highest honors from Williams College. A Herchel Smith Scholar, she read for an M.Phil in Social and Political Theory at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. She earned her JD from the Yale Law School jointly with an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School where she held the John Parker Compton Memorial Fellowship. During the course of her doctoral work at Princeton, Bâli was selected for the Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Honorific Fellowship and awarded a Graduate Prize Fellowship from the University Center for Human Values. She was also elected as a member of the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars. Bâli also received a FLAS Scholarship to study Arabic at the American University of Beirut and was appointed as a Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Prior to her doctoral studies, Bâli worked in private practice at an international law firm in New York.