Zülâl Muslu

Zülâl Muslu is an Assistant Professor of Legal History at Tilburg Law School (Netherlands). She specializes in late Ottoman legal history, with a particular focus on international law, legal pluralism, and transnational sociolegal interactions in the long 19th century. She earned her PhD in Law (Paris Nanterre University, 2018) with a dissertation on Ottoman Sovereignty and the Mixed Commercial Courts, contributing to broader debates on imperial legal orders and their intersections with global governance. She also holds Master’s degrees in History and Anthropology of Law (Paris Nanterre) and Public Governance and Diplomacy (Clermont Auvergne). 

She has held prestigious research fellowships, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellowship, and has published in renowed academic outlets such as Comparative Legal History, Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History, and the Max Planck encyclopedia of international procedural law. Her current research investigates the complex entanglements between emotions and law, exploring how legal norms, judicial practices, and governance structures are shaped by affective experiences. Her expertise spans invited lectures in Milan, Istanbul, and Taipei, as well as teaching European and global legal history (with a focus on the Middle East), applied history, and critical legal perspectives in Paris, Vienna, and Tilburg.