dr. A (Aylin) Aydin Cakir

Biography

Aylin is an Assistant Professor of Law, Politics and Quantitative Methods at Erasmus Law School. Prior to joining Erasmus, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeditepe University, Turkey (2014-2020). In 2017 she received the prestigious Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) from the Science Academy. She was awarded Re:Constitution fellowship by Stiftung Mercator in 2019 and served as visiting research fellow at Utrecht University School of Law from 2020 to 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, she worked as a Senior Lecturer in the Political Science program at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 

Her research interests focus on judicial politics, comparative political institutions, comparative constitutional law, and public opinion. Methodologically, her research leverages several quantative approaches including observational data, experiments as well as other causal inference designs.

Her studies are published in various journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP); Political Research Quarterly; International Political Science Review; Law&Society Review; Democratization; International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON); International Review of Law and Economics; and Global Constitutionalism.

See CV.