Başak Ertür
Reader in Research Architecture / On leave 2023-24
b.etur@gold.ac.uk
Başak Ertür is a critical legal scholar. She is the author of Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (Fordham University Press, 2022). Her work is engaged with questions of legal violence, legal performativity, and more broadly with law's epistemologies and aesthetics. She was a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2023-24) and is working on a book Just Publics: Counter-claims to Public Truth and Justice. Edited collections include the Routledge Handbook on the Lived Experience of Ideology (James Martel, Naveed Mansouri and Connal Parsley, 2024), Manual for Conspiracy (2011), and Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said (Müge Gürsoy Sökmen, 2008). In 2016 she received the Association for the Study of Law Culture and the Humanities Julien Mezey Dissertation Award and was a CAPES/PRINT Visiting Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2022. Previously she taught at Birkbeck Law School. She serves on the advisory board of Forensis and the editorial committee of Law & Critique.