Nurbanu Hayır

Nurbanu Hayır was an intern with MPI’s International Program. She is a dual-trained lawyer and researcher with an LLM from Yale Law School and an LLB from Galatasaray University. Her work focuses on comparative legal and policy research on international law, international protection, externalization, and visa regimes. Her research has been published in various international law journals.

Before her internship with MPI, she was a Yale Fox International Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s iCourts, where her research examined the role of European regional courts in addressing global migration challenges. She has also provided research assistance to a UN working group, assisted NGOs through Yale Law School’s human rights clinic, and worked as a lawyer in Istanbul on human rights cases before national and regional courts.