Affiliation: University of Antwerp
Keywords: International law, human rights, sustainable development, development finance, children’s rights, multistakeholder partnerships, accountability
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Gamze Erdem Türkelli is an Associate Research Professor in International Law, Human Rights and Sustainable Development at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law, Law & Development Research Group. She is also the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant 2023 funded GENESIS (www.genesis-erc.eu) project.
Her work is situated in the interface of international law, human rights law and sustainable development. She conducts research into transnational human rights obligations (including business and human rights), hybrid public-private actors in international law such as multistakeholder partnerships, ‘innovative’ development financing, children’s rights as well as accountability and responsibility.
She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Antwerp, a Master of Arts in International Relations from Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where she was a Fulbright Fellow, a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University
Gamze is a member of the Academic Circle on the Right to Development established in March 2024 by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development Professor Surya Deva. She is also a Steering Committee member of the International Economic Law (IEL) Collective, a Steering Committee member of the international research project New Frontiers in Development Finance (NeFDeF) and its sub-project Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CliFT).
Her research seeks to transcend disciplinary boundaries and has appeared in the Business and Human Rights Journal, Development and Change, Global Policy, the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Human Rights Law Review, the International Journal of Children’s Rights, the Journal of Human Rights Practice and Transnational Environmental Law. She is the author of Children’s Rights and Business: Governing Obligations and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press 2020), co-author of Children’s Rights: A Commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Protocols (Edward Elgar 2019, 2nd ed. forthcoming 2024) and of Advanced Introduction to Children’s Rights (Edward Elgar 2022). She is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Law and Development (Edward Elgar 2021) and the Routledge Handbook of Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Routledge 2022, Open Access).