Ozan Varol Explained

Ozan Varol
Birth Date:1 December 1981
Birth Place:Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation:Associate law professor, author
Alma Mater:Cornell University, Lewis & Clark Law School, The University of Iowa College of Law

Ozan Varol (born December 1, 1981) is a Turkish author and was a tenured law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School.[1] [2] [3] He is best known for coining the phrase "democratic coup" and authoring the book The Democratic Coup d'État.[4] [5]

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Early life and career

Varol was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. He moved to the United States at the age of 17 for his undergraduate studies where he received a bachelor's degree in Planetary Sciences from Cornell University in 2003. During his time at Cornell, he served as a member of the operations team for NASA's 2003 Mars Exploration Rover project; which sent two rovers to examine the Martian surface.[6] Varol later earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2007.

As an associate professor at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, he taught constitutional law, criminal law, and comparative constitutional law. He is best known for his book The Democratic Coup d'État, published in 2017, which expands on his article of the same name, published in the Harvard International Law Journal in 2012. Both works explore the idea that a democracy can sometimes be established by a military coup.[7] Foreign Policy magazine used Varol's criteria to analyze whether the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état that removed Mohammad Morsi from power was democratic.[8] In addition, he has published over a dozen scholarly articles between the years of 2008 and 2017. He also writes weekly in his blog about critical thinking and non-conformity.

He has written about "constitutional stickiness" which Yaniv Roznai describes as follows: "even arbitrary or anachronistic existing constitutional provisions often stick during the remaking of constitutions, due to behavioral mechanisms and biases that entrench the constitutional status quo".[9] Varol has also written about "temporary constitutional provisions" which remain in effect for a limited amount of time.[10]

Varol has defined originalism broadly as the reliance on history for constitutional interpretation. This is limited not only to "legislating from the bench" but also to any interpretation of the constitution that may be informed by the views of historical figures.[11]

Notable publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Law Faculty: Ozan Varol, Associate Professor of Law . Lewis & Clark Law School . webpage . Lewis & Clark Law School . January 2, 2018.
  2. Web site: I'm a Muslim Immigrant and I Have Faith in America . Ozan Varol . October 18, 2016 . Article . Time.com . January 2, 2018.
  3. Web site: Ozan O. Varol . SSRN . Webpage . SSRN . January 2, 2018.
  4. Web site: 'Demokratik darbe' kuraminin mucidini takdimimdir . Taha Kivanc . July 8, 2013 . Article . Turkish. Presenting the inventor of the theory of 'democratic coup' . January 2, 2018.
  5. Web site: Will Venezuela be the Next Zimbabwe? Military Coup Against Maduro is Very Likely . Robert Valencia . November 22, 2017 . Article . January 6, 2018.
  6. Web site: Mars'a ve darbeye merakli bir Türk genci . Taha Kivanc . July 9, 2013 . Article . Turkish. A curious Turkish youngster with Mars and the coup . Star . January 6, 2018.
  7. Web site: HILJ Symposium: A pragmatist's response to "The Democratic Coup d'Etat" . William Partlett . September 27, 2012 . Article . Brookings.edu . January 2, 2018.
  8. Book: transcript Verlag . 978-3-8394-2472-8 . Falkenhayner . Nicole . Langenohl . Andreas . Scheu . Johannes . Schweitzer . Doris . Szulecki . Kacper . Rethinking Order: Idioms of Stability and Destabilization . 2015.
  9. Book: Roznai, Yaniv . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-108144-6 . Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: The Limits of Amendment Powers . 2017-02-16.
  10. Book: Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-15479-7 . Ginsburg . Tom . Huq . Aziz . Assessing Constitutional Performance . 2016-08-30.
  11. Book: Wilson, Sean . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-0-7391-7815-7 . The Flexible Constitution . 2013.

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