Cem completed his LLM at Harvard Law School, where he continues to study as an SJD candidate. His primary areas of research include comparative constitutional law, Islamic constitutionalism, and democratization.
Post History
Authored Works
- Commentary :: Did Republican Turkey Really Abolish the Ottoman Caliphate? The Curious Case of Law No. 431
- Commentary :: Kadijustiz in Turkish Constitutional Adjudication: Islamic Law as an Aversive Model?
- Commentary :: Religious Accommodation in an Assertively Secular Legal System: Mahr and the Turkish Case
- Commentary :: How Was Secularism Added to the Turkish Constitution? The Varying Rationales
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Noah Feldman on Law, Islam, and the Future of the Middle East
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Noah Feldman on Imposed Constitutions and Established Religion
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Noah Feldman on Islamic Constitutionalism in Context: A Typology and a Warning
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Noah Feldman on Imposed Constitutionalism
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Noah Feldman on The Democratic Fatwa
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on the Legal Hermeneutics of al-Shāfi‘ī and Ibn Qutayba
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on the First Islamic Legal Theory
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on the Prophet as Lawgiver and Legal Authority
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on Reading the Qur’an as a Law Book
- Islamic Law Lexicon :: Ḥadīth
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Noah Feldman on Constitutional Politics and Text in the New Iraq
- Scholarship in “Plain English”: Noah Feldman on Political Equality in Islam