Basak Ertur

Basak Ertur

Başak Ertür is a Reader at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths and a Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture. She is the author of Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (2022) which was awarded the 2024 SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize. Her work is engaged with questions of legal violence, legal performativity, and more broadly with law's epistemologies and aesthetics. Her writing has appeared in Critical Times, Law & CritiqueTheory & EventAut aut and across several edited volumes. Ertür's edited collections include Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said (2008), Manual for Conspiracy (2011), and Something Is Rotten in the State (2016), a special issue of Theory & Event. She has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-24), was a CAPES/PRINT Visiting Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2022, and received the Association for the Study of Law Culture and the Humanities Julien Mezey Dissertation Award in 2016.

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