College of Law
Arif Doğuhan Erkin
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Key information
- Department
- College of Law
- Qualifications
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LL.B. (MEF, Ist)
LL.M. (GvaGrad) - Email address
- 26104065@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Universal Yet Uneven: A Critical Reappraisal of the Structure and Nature of International Law (Provisional)
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Parvathi Menon & Professor Irini Papanicolopulu
Biography
Arif Doguhan Erkin is an MPhil/PhD student in the College of Law, SOAS University of London. He is an advisor at KARLI Law Firm, Deputy Executive Editor of the Turkish Arbitration Blog, and a Legal Operations Associate at the World Moot on International Law and Animal Rights (Sparks Moot).
He obtained his LL.B. from MEF University, Istanbul. Before joining SOAS, he pursued his LL.M. in International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva. His interest in settler-colonial studies, corporate complicity and the law and political economy motivated his LL.M. paper, in which he examined corporate complicity and Business & Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory within the broader political economy of settler-colonialism in the region.
During his LL.B., he served as co-president of the MEF branch of the International Law Students Association (ILSA) and editor-in-chief of Lex Ferenda, a student-led law journal of MEF ILSA. He participated in Jessup 2024 as an oralist and coached MEF University's Team in the National Rounds in 2025. Since then, he has served as a memorial judge. He attended several summer schools in Turkey and Belgium on Global Animal Law, International Human Rights Law (IHRL), and International Humanitarian Law (IHL). He has published research articles on IHRL, IHL, and International Environmental Law in reputable Turkish journals.
His PhD research focuses on a Gramscian account of hegemony and Marxist perspectives on ideology and how they influence the international legal order. In particular, he uses the concepts of hegemony and ideology to examine why the international legal order remains unequal, rather than fulfilling its promise of sovereign equality, with a particular focus on hegemonic and ideological practices of non-state actors. In doing so, he also examines the material conditions produced by the logic of capital that sustain and reinforce existing inequalities in the international
Research interests
- Marxist Approaches to International Law
- Third-World Approaches to International Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Global Animal Law
- Law and Political Economy
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