An online legal research workshop will be held by Prof. Dr. Nergis Canefe (York University,Canada) for NEU International Law School post-graduate students. Attendance is highly recommended as this workshop will introduce students to methods and approaches to legal thinking that are suitable at the graduate level. It will cover issues such as how to imagine a research paper/thesis, how to determine the audience, how to structure the research, how to determine different kinds of bibliographies, how to use counter-arguments and hypotheticals, how to prepare sections of the thesis for publication, and the common points of confusion or exasperation for law students at the graduate level and how to address/overcome them. Students who are currently writing their dissertations; please prepare a single paragraph defining your research topic prior to attending the workshop.
Please be informed that this workshop will be counted as one of the stages for your thesis submission. Accordingly, we are expecting you to follow the event in a serious manner.

Live on the 9th of April 2020, Friday, 15:00 (According to TRNC time) via

Professor Nergis Canefe (PhD, SJD) is a Turkish-Canadian scholar of public international law, comparative politics, forced migration studies and critical human rights. She has held posts in several European and Turkish Universities and is a faculty member at York University, Canada since 2003. She regularly serves at the executive board of several international organizations, including International Association of Forced Migration Studies, and is the co-editor of Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security. She is a frequent public speaker on issues related to human rights, minority rights and historical injustices. She penned close to 100 scholarly articles and several books, Transitional Justice and Forced Migration (edited volume, 2019, Cambridge University Press), The Syrian Exodus (monograph, 2018, Bilgi University), The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics, Religion and Belonging (edited volume, 2014, Libra Press –Jewish Studies Series), Milliyetcilik, Kimlik ve Aidiyet (monograph, 2006, Nationalism, Identity and Belonging], Istanbul: Bilgi University Publishing House), and Turkey and European Integration: Accession Prospects and Issues (2004, edited volume in collaboration with Mehmet Ugur, Routledge). Her most recent book is Limits of Universal Jurisdiction: A Critical Debate on Crimes against Humanity (University of Wales International Law Series, in press), to be followed by a volume on Unorthodox Minorities in the Middle East (Lexington Press) and Comparative Politics of Administrative Law in the Middle East (MacMillan Publishers). Her scholarly work appeared in Nations and Nationalism, Citizenship Studies, New Perspectives, Refugee Watch, Refuge, South East European Studies, Globalizations, Peace Review, Middle Eastern Law and Governance, Journal of International Human Rights, and, Narrative Politics. Professor Canefe is also a trained artist and her designs and murals have been showcased regularly since 2008.