Seval Yildirim
Professor; UB Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence
Links: Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
549 Capen Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-6200
vpix@buffalo.edu
Select Publications
Reframing Populism (forthcoming).
Searching for Free Speech (forthcoming).
The M Word: Muslims and the American Experience (forthcoming).
Populist Secularism. 33 THE MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 39 (2024).
Gender and Resistance in Turkey: On Myths of Liberty and Salvation. TRANSNATIONAL LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 353 (2015), pp. 353-376, and 18(2) THE JOURNAL OF GENDER, RACE & JUSTICE 399 (2015).
Conceptions of Religion in the Secular State. 41 PEPPERDINE LAW REVIEW 1049 (2014), pp. 1049-1057.
Global Tangles: Laws, Headcoverings and Religious Identity. 10 SANTA CLARA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 45 (2012).
Reprinted in RELIGIOUS RIGHTS, pp. 477-504, Lorenzo Zucca, ed., Routledge (2015).
Accommodation Tangles in the Laws over Hair in LAW AND RELIGION: CASES IN CONTEXT, pp. 293-309, Leslie C. Griffin, ed., Aspen (2010).
Islamic Law in MODERN MUSLIM SOCIETIES: MUSLIM WORLD. Florian Pohl, ed. Marshall Cavendish (2010).
The Search for Shared Idioms: Contesting Views of Laiklik Before the Turkish Constitutional Court in MUSLIM COMMUNITIES AND THE CRISIS OF SECULARISM, pp. 235-252, Gabriele Marranci, ed., Springer (2010).
Discussing Islam in the Post-9/11 Epistemological Terrain, 19 PACE INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 223 (2007), npp.
Empowering the Human in Human Rights Discourse, 100 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 409 (2006), pp. 409-411.
Aftermath of a Revolution: A Case Study of Turkish Family Law, 17 PACE INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 347 (2005), pp. 347-371.
Expanding Secularism’s Scope: An Indian Case Study, 52 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 901 (2004).
Reprinted in part in CULTURAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE, AND INDIGENOUS, eds. James A. R. Nafziger, Robert Kirkwood Paterson and Alison Dundes Renteln, pp. 850-851, Cambridge (2010).
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Blog Entries:
The Faculty Lounge: Conversations about Law, Culture, and Academia
Guest Blogger
- Some Initial Thoughts, July 18, 2013
- First Night in Istanbul: Thinking about the Human Body as the Site of Resistance, July 26, 2013
- Vulnerability and Courage: Moments from Ongoing Turkish Protests, August 1, 2013
- Meanwhile in the U.S.: Massachusetts Bar Examinee Asked to Remove Her Hijab Mid-Exam, August 6, 2013