Başak Ertür

Başak Ertür lectures in law and co-directs the Centre for Law and the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths. Her research investigates legal performativity, the entanglements of law and violence, law’s history and memory-work, and practices of resistance. She has co-directed For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq. Her first monograph Spectacles and Spectres: A Performative Theory of Political Trials will be published in autumn 2022.

As of March 2022