Betül Durmuş is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights working for the project ‘Deep Impact through Soft Jurisprudence? The Contribution of United Nations Treaty Body Case Law to the Development of International Human Rights Law’. She is also an associate editor of the UN human rights law module of Oxford Reports on International Law. As a human rights law case reporter for the same module, she has published 22 case reports from seven United Nations treaty bodies on issues pertaining to transitional justice, sexual violence, children’s rights, and discrimination based on ethnic origin and disability.
She received her PhD degree in public law from Koç University in 2022 with her thesis examining whether and how international human rights law reconciles children’s rights with parental control rights and state interests in the child’s upbringing. Before joining the Centre, she was a research and teaching assistant in public international law at Koç University Law School where she worked for research projects on the effects of international human rights law on public international law and its sub-branches, the individual application case-law of Turkish Constitutional Court and the impact of the United Nations human rights treaties in Turkey.
Her research interests lie in UN human rights law, comparative international human rights law, international children’s rights law and Turkey’s relationship with international human rights mechanisms.
