Yüksel Sezgin

• 2026 Spring
  • PSC 470 Experience Credit
• 2025 Summer
  • LPS 400 Selected Topic - Global Leaders in Law:Fnd&Skil
  • PSC 400 Selected Topics - First Amendment&Freedom of Rel
• 2025 Spring
  • PSC 123 Comparative Government and Politics
  • PSC 320 Comparative Law and Courts
• 2024 Fall
  • PSC 374 Law and Society
  • PSC 300 Selected Topics - Global Landmark Judgements
• 2024 Summer
  • IRP/PAI/PSC 400/600 Selected Topics - Rel, Law, Humn Rghts: Comp Per
• 2024 Spring
  • PSC 123 Comparative Government and Politics
  • MES/PSC/REL 381/361 Islamic Law & Society

"Muslim Family Law Index Website/Visualization Project", Sponsored by American Political Science Association.

"Reforming Muslin Family Laws in Non-Muslim Regimes: the Roles of Civil Courts", Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities.

"IRAMFAL: A Tool for Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Women's Rights under Muslim Family Laws", Sponsored by Assoc. for the Sociology of Religion.

"Islamic Law in Non-Muslim Countries", Sponsored by Princeton University.

"Partnership Agreement - Dr. Latif Tas", Sponsored by European Commission.

"William A. Steiger Fund for Legislative Studies Research Grant", Sponsored by APSA.

• Book
  • Sezgin, Y., ***Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt, and India. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Journal Articles
  • Sezgin, Y., "Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts." Law & Social Inquiry, 2023.
  • Sezgin, Y., "A Global and Historical Exploration: Legislative Reform in Muslim Family Law in Muslim-Majority vs. Muslim-Minority Countries." Law & Policy, 2023.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Muslim Family Law Reform: Understanding the Difference between Muslim-Majority and Muslim-Minority Countries." Journal of Law, Religion and State, 2022.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Muslim Family Laws in Israel and Greece: Can Non-Muslim Courts Bring About Legal Change in Shari'a?." Islamic Law and Society, 2018.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Resiliency and Pitfalls of Crisis Regimes: Reimagining the Future of Turkey's Democracy through the Lens of the Indian Emergency." Review of Middle East Studies, 2018.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Do Not Betray God or Your People': Negotiating Women's Rights under Muslim Family Laws in Israel and India." Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2017.
  • Sezgin, Y., Künkler, M., "The Unification of Law and the Postcolonial State: The Limits of State Monism in India and Indonesia." American Behavioral Scientist, 2016.
• Book Chapters
  • Sezgin, Y., "The Mufti System and Islamic Law in Western Thrace, Greece." In Equality, Plurality and Personal Status Law: A Research Companion. Routledge, 2026.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Muslim Family Laws, Human Rights and Women's Rights, 1945–2016." In Human Rights, the Family, and Internationalism Since the Nineteenth Century: Historical Perspectives. Mosses, J. (ed.) Palgrave, 2025.
  • Sezgin, Y., "The Past, Present and Future of Muslim Personal Law in Ghana: A Judicial Analysis." In Reimagining Legal Pluralism in Africa: Balancing Indigenous, State, and Religious Laws. Rautenbach, C. (ed.) Brill, 2024.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Comparative remarks: Religious laws and marriage." In Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws. Bottoni, R., Ferrari, S. and Sandberg, R. (eds.) Ashgate, 2019.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Jurisdictional Competition and Internal Reform in Muslim Family Law in Israel and Greece." In Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism. Arato, A., Cohen, J. L. and von Busekist, A. (eds.) Columbia University Press, 2018.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Anwendung und Regulierung Muslimischen Familienrechts in Nichtmuslimischen Demokratien: Die Rolle der Ziviljustiz bei Scharia-Reformen." In Normenkonflikte in Pluralistischen Gesellschaften, Susanne Schröter (Ed.). Campus Verlag, 2017.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Anwendung und Regulierung Muslimischen Familienrechts in Nichtmuslimischen Demokratien: Die Rolle der Ziviljustiz bei Scharia-Reformen." In Normenkonflikte in Pluralistischen Gesellschaften. Schröter, S. (ed.) Campus Verlag, 2017.
• Blog
  • Sezgin, Y., "The Muslim Family Law Reform: Exploring Cross-National and Historical Differences." Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion, 2024.
• Book Reviews
  • Sezgin, Y., "Tepe, Sultan, Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007)." In Middle East Journal. , 2009.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Kohli, Atul, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)." In International Studies Review. , 2005.
• Dataset /Website
  • Sezgin, Y. (Primary Investigator), The Muslim Family Law Index. , 2023.
• Edited Volume
  • "Special Issue on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism." Sezgin, Y. (ed.) The Journal of Legal Pluralism, 2010.
• Encyclopedia Entries
  • Sezgin, Y., Pendergast, T., "Azerbaijan." In Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies. Pendergast, S. (ed.) Gale Group, 2002.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Syria." In Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies. Pendergast, S., Pendergast, T. (eds.) Gale Group, 2002.
• Op-Eds
  • Sezgin, Y., "How a Constitutional Amendment Could End Turkey’s Republic." In Washington Post (Monkey Cage). , 2017.
  • Sezgin, Y., "How Erdogan's anti-democratic government made Turkey ripe for unrest." In Washington Post (Monkey Cage). , 2016.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Could Erdogan lose Turkey’s upcoming election?." In Washington Post (Monkey Cage). , 2015.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Turkish women’s rights beyond Islamists and secularists." In Washington Post (Monkey Cage). , 2014.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Why is Tunisian democracy succeeding while the Turkish model is failing?." In Washington Post (Monkey Cage). , 2014.
  • Sezgin, Y., "What will it take to bring Turkey fully on board?." In Al Jazeera (Opinion). , 2014.
  • Sezgin, Y., "Erdogan's presidency: A risky gamble?." In Al Jazeera (Opinion). , 2014.

University of California, Riverside, "Judging Through Narrative: Muslim Family Laws in Non-Muslim Courts" (April 20, 2026)

University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, "Judging Through Narrative: Muslim Family Laws in Non-Muslim Courts" (March 4, 2026)

The European Academy of Religion’s Eighth Annual Conference, "The Muslim Family Law Index: A New Tool for Analyzing Tensions Between Religious Laws and Human Rights" (July 10, 2025)

American Political Science Association Annual Conference, "Narratival Obscurity and Failure to Uphold Precedents: Indian Federal Courts and the Erosion of the Rule of Law" (September, 2024)

The South Asia Center, Syracuse University, "Narratival Ambiguity and Its Consequences: The Case of Muslim Divorce in Indian Courts" (April 16, 2024)

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, "Correlates of Muslim Family Law Reform: A Global and Historical Exploration" (October 20, 2023)

ASA Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Prize, American Sociological Association (2018 - 2026)

APSA Aaron Wildavsky Award for Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics (2008)

MESA Malcolm H. Kerr Best Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences (2008)