D
oruk Erhan is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he earned his LL.M. in 2022 as a Fulbright Scholar. Before coming to Yale, he studied law in Turkey and the United Kingdom and practiced at an Ankara-based law firm, specializing in appellate litigation. In 2022–2023, he was a Fox Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po Paris. He also holds a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in Law, summa cum laude, from Bilkent University.
Doruk’s research spans transnational litigation and arbitration, legal theory, and comparative law. He examines the modalities and normative limits of dispute resolution beyond the state—how legal practices and institutions both forge and impede cohesion between strangers, while themselves being reshaped and hybridized through that very process. His dissertation develops a genealogical account of international arbitration, tracing the field’s formative debates and competing conceptions from the early decades of the Cold War to the present. His related interests include civil procedure, law and development, comparative institutional design, and Turkish constitutional politics.
His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the Yale Journal of International Law Online, as well as in popular media outlets.
Doctoral Committee
Professor Daniel Markovits (co-chair), Ralf Michaels (co-chair), Susan Rose-Ackerman (reader), Samuel Moyn (reader)
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2022
MJur, University of Oxford, 2020
B.A. in Law, Bilkent University, 2019
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