Biography
Bertil Emrah Oder is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Koç University Law School. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cologne and holds the UNESCO Chair for Gender Equality and Sustainable Development.
Her research focuses on constitutionalism, autocratization, gender equality, human rights, and judicial review. Oder is a selected Science Academy Turkey and the All European Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) Science and Ethics Working Group. She has served as an international consultant for the UNWomen and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). She was selected as Henry Morris Lecturer of International and Comparative Law in 2012 (Chicago-Kent School of Law) and Distinguished Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies in 2023 (University of Texas at Austin, School of Law). She holds various scholarly awards, including the Defender of Constitutional Democracy (Global Summit on Constitutionalism, 2020).
She was an academic consultant for the Constitutional Conciliation Committee (Turkey) from 2011-2013. She also holds an LLB and master's degree from the University of Istanbul and Marmara University (Turkey). Her recent publications include: "The Turkish Constitutional Court and Turkey’s Democratic Breakdown: Judicial Politics Under Pressure" ICL Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 2024, pp. 127-163. https://doi.org/10.1515/icl-2023-0043; “The feminist struggle and the 1924 Constitution: feminists as constitutionalists”, Diritto Pubblico Comparato Ed Europeo (DPCE) Online, Volume 61, no. 4, January 2024.