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Derya Bayir is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, working on the Project Engaging League Nations Protecting Turkey's Minorities (ELoN). This project examines the League of Nations' Minority Protection System within the context of interwar Turkey, focusing on how the system influenced Turkey’s minority policies and international law, particularly the Lausanne Treaty of 1923. Drawing from primary archival sources, Derya is developing a Minority Petitions Database intended to offer new insights into Turkey’s complex relationship with its minority communities during this period. She is the author of 'Minorities Nationalism Turkish Law,' which is a pivotal work on the legal status of minorities in Turkey. Derya earned her doctorate from the Queen Mary University of London, with a thesis that received the Contemporary Turkish Studies Prize from the London School of Economics (LSE). She has also litigated notable cases at the European Court of Human Rights, including Güveç v. Turkey and Mehmet Nuri Ozen v. Turkey. Derya’s research interests encompass human rights, minority rights, diversity law, and ethnoreligious diversity in Turkey’s legal system, as well as nationalism, Ottoman pluralism, constitutional law, and autonomous federal state systems. Currently, she teaches a course titled 'Shaping Modern World: League Nations Legacy in International Law and Politics' at the University of Copenhagen, which explores the broader impact of the League's work on international governance and law.
Focuses on clinical, social, and cognitive psychology.