Aslihan Asil joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Law. She teaches courses on corporate finance and antitrust law. Her research interests center on antitrust law, industrial organization economics, and corporate finance. Recent work includes conducting empirical studies and incorporating economic modeling to suggest changes that update existing legal doctrines, enhance competition, and improve consumer welfare. Asil effectively addresses new commercial interactions, technologies, and market structures, such as private equity and artificial intelligence. Her scholarship has been published in respected journals including the Virginia Law & Business Review, the University of Chicago Business Law Review, and the Antitrust Chronicle. She has presented her work at various venues, including before the Federal Trade Commission and the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, as well as at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Asil earned her PhD in Financial Economics from Yale University, her JD from Yale Law School, and her bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she has experience serving as a researcher for the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and has worked with the American Bar Association's Governmental Affairs Division and the International Monetary Fund in Ankara, Turkey.