Ayça Çubukçu

Ayça Çubukçu is an associate professor of Human Rights and co-director of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she also directs the research group “Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity”. Her fields of study are social, political and legal theory and postcolonial studies. Specifically, she investigates political violence and transnational social movements and the interweaving of international law and human rights ideals with the ethics and politics of violence. She has taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, and she has been a senior fellow of the Fung Global Fellows Program at Princeton University. Çubukçu is co-editor of the “LSE International Studies Series” for the Cambridge University Press. She is also a member of the Centre for Social Movement Studies at the European University Institute and a member the editorial board for Humanity Journal. She has published the essay For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).