Melike Arslan (Ph.D. 2021)
Area(s) of Interest
Comparative and International Political Economy; Economic Sociology; Socio-Legal Studies; Organizational Behavior; Institutions and Economic Development; Experts and Professionals
Melike Arslan is currently a Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She received her PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University in 2021. Her research connects sociology of markets, organizations, and expertise with international political economy of laws and regulations using comparative-historical methodology. Her dissertation examined how corporate monopolization is embedded in misdirected or unenforced competition laws and policies, and her previous works have been punished in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and International Journal of Law in Context.
Publications:
Arslan, Melike. “Differentiating and connecting indicators: the quality and performance of law in the World Bank's Doing Business Project.” International Journal of Law in Context 16, no. 1 (2020): 17-38.
Carruthers, Bruce G., and Melike Arslan. “Sovereignty, Law, and Money: New Developments.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 15.1 (2019)
Website: https://www.melikearslan.com