Idil Atak

Dr. Idil Atak is a professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Before joining TMU, Atak worked as a legal expert in the Turkish Foreign Ministry and as a deputy to the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the Council of Europe. Atak earned her PhD at Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law and was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at McGill University’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. She currently serves as a director-at-large for the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). Atak was a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration’s (IASFM) executive committee and a past president of the CARFMS. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (IJMBS) from 2017 to 2020.