Publications

Books

Cambridge University Press (2023)

Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm Against Torture

Ezgi Yildiz https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009103862 (open access)

*Received Honorable Mention for the Chadwick F. Alger Award from the International Organization Section of the International Studies Association (2025)

Oxford University Press (2023)

The Many Paths of Change in International Law

Krisch, Nico, and Ezgi Yildiz eds. (open access)

Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

Change in International Law: Paths, Processes, Power

Krisch, Nico, Ezgi Yildiz, and Pedro Martinez Esponda

Journal Articles

The Review of International Organizations (2024)

The Defocalizing Effect of International Courts: Evidence from Maritime Delimitation Practices

Yildiz, Ezgi, and Umut Yüksel https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-024-09545-4 (open access)

*Received the inaugural Best Article on International and Social Science Award from the American Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Law and Social Science (2025)

German Law Journal (2022)

Limits of Behavioral Approaches: Lessons from the Field of Maritime Boundary Making

Yildiz, Ezgi, and Umut Yüksel 23 (3): 413-430, doi:10.1017/glj.2022.24 (open access)

European Journal of International Law (2020)

A Court with Many Faces: Judicial Characters and Modes of Norm Development in the European Court

Yildiz, Ezgi 31(1): 73–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chaa014 (open access)

Temple International and Comparative Law Journal (2020)

Enduring Practices in Changing Circumstances: A Comparison of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Yildiz, Ezgi 34(2): 309-338 (open access)

Journal of Human Rights Practice (2020)

Revamping to Remain Relevant: How Do European and Inter-American Human Rights Systems Adapt to Challenges?

Ramanzini, Isabela Gerbelli Garbin,  Ezgi Yildiz 12(3): 768-780, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaa038 (Read here)

Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (2015)

Judicial Creativity in the Making: The Pilot Judgment Procedure a Decade After Its Inception

Yildiz, Ezgi (2015) 8(1): 81-102 (open access)

Book Chapters and Working Papers

The Making of iCourts: New Interdisciplinary Legal Research (2022)

Extraterritoriality Reconsidered: Functional Boundaries as Repositories of Sovereignty and Jurisdiction

Yildiz, Ezgi

eds. Henrik Palmer Olsen and Henrik Stampe Lund (Nomos) pp. 357-372 (open access)

Language and Legal Interpretation in International Law (2022)

Interpretative Evolution of the Norm Prohibiting Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment under the European Convention

Yildiz, Ezgi

eds. Anne Lise Kjær and Joanna Lam (Oxford University Press) pp. 295-314 (Read here)

The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics (2019)

Extraterritoriality Reconsidered: Functional Boundaries as Repositories of Sovereignty and Jurisdiction

Yildiz, Ezgi

eds. Daniel S. Margolies, Umut Özsu, Maïa Pal, and Ntina Tzouvala (Routledge) pp. 215-227 (Read here)

iCourts Working Paper Series No. 45 (2016)

Norm in Flux: The Development of the Norm Against Torture under the European Convention from a Macro Perspective

Yildiz, Ezgi