Exploring the Middle East

Conference Schedule

All events will be held in the David Student Union

Friday, February 7

Time	Event
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.	Check-in and Information
10 a.m.	Welcome, refreshments and networking
11 a.m. - noon	Campus Tour
noon-1:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m.	Roundtable session
3-4:15 p.m.	Concurrent sessions
4:30-6 p.m.	Reiff Center Speaker - Aslı Ü. Bâli Aslı Ü. Bâli is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Bâli’s teaching and research interests include public international law — particularly human rights law and the law of the international security order — and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East. She has written on the nuclear non-proliferation regime, humanitarian intervention, the roles of race and empire in the interpretation and enforcement of international law, the role of judicial independence in constitutional transitions, federalism and decentralization in the Middle East, and constitutional design in religiously divided societies. Bâli received her doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in 2010 and her law degree from Yale. Before joining academia, she worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb, where she specialized in international transactions and sovereign representation. Prior to joining Yale Law School, Bâli was Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where she served as the founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and as Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. She was also a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies program. In 2022, she was awarded the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for distinction in the classroom at the UCLA School of Law. Immediately prior to her appointment at UCLA, she served as the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow in Law at Yale Law School. Bâli currently serves as co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Middle East Division of Human Rights Watch and as chair of both the Task Force on Civil and Human Rights of the Middle East Studies Association and the MESA Global Academy. She is also on the board of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association and on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law.
6:30 p.m.	Opening reception

Saturday, February 8

Time	Event
8 a.m.	Coffee and registration
9 a.m.	Breakfast and networking
10:30-11:45 a.m.	Concurrent sessions
noon-1:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m.	Roundtable session
3-4:15 p.m.	Concurrent sessions
Free Time	Ice cream social
6-7:30 p.m.	Keynote dinner
8 p.m.	Film screening

Sunday, February 9

Time	Event
9 a.m.	Coffee and breakfast
10-11:15 a.m.	Concurrent sessions