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.
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Work
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir & Ebru İlter Akarçay (2025) - When do governments attack the judiciary?: The explanatory power of political corruption - International Review of Law and Economics, 82 - doi: 10.1016/j.irle.2025.106248 - [link]
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir & Amanda Driscoll (2024) - On motives and means: how approach and justification for court-curbing impact public trust - Democratization - doi: 10.1080/13510347.2024.2428271
- Amanda Driscoll, Aylin Aydin-Cakir & Susanne Schorpp (2024) - Public (In)Tolerance of Government Non‐Compliance with High Court Decisions - Comparative Politics, 57 (1), 71-90 - doi: 10.5129/001041524X17142416158300
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir (2024) - The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland - Journal of European Public Policy, 31 (5), 1179-1205 - doi: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2171089 - [link]
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir (2023) - Court-curbing through legal reforms or coercion? - [link]
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir (2023) - Duration of the constitution-making process as an indicator of post-constitutional political uncertainty: The insurance theory revisited - Global Constitutionalism, 12 (2), 298-325 - doi: 10.1017/S2045381722000302 - [link]
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir & Duygu Merve Uysal (2023) - Karşılaştırmalı Siyaset Biliminde Araştırma Yöntemleri: Comparative Political Studies Dergisinin Analizi (1990-2020)
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir & Ünver Serdar (2021) - A Report on Constitutional Reforms in Turkey
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir & Selin Türkeş Kılıç (2021) - How to Use Mixed Method in Scientific Studies? - Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, 42, 1-15 - doi: 10.30794/pausbed.802568
- Aylin Aydin-Cakir (2021) - What do we know about the Middle Eastern constitutional courts? - doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1tfw0ff.16
Quantitative Empirical Legal Studies
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RT03
Law in Action
- Level
- overig
- Year Level
- overig
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RMIN18
Empirical Legal Studies
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RLE14
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RR317
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RD317