Rayhan Asat
Rayhan Asat (Bluesky – LinkedIn – X) is an international law scholar and human rights lawyer. She serves as a senior legal and policy advisor at the Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project. Her doctoral scholarly research focuses on the rise of authoritarian international law.
Rayhan worked on a wide range of human rights issues, especially concerning marginalized communities, in particular the Uyghur and other Turkic people facing persecution, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. She offered legal and policy advice to various governments and organizations, such as the World Bank and the OECD, on issues related to international law, human rights, modern slavery, and corporate accountability.
Her work has been widely recognized, and she was named as one of the 50 people changing the world on Vox News’ inaugural FuturePerfect50 list. She was honored with the Epic Justice award by the New York City Bar Association and the prestigious Yale World Fellowship. Her work has been featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, Foreign Policy, CNN, Harvard Law Today, Canadian Lawyers Magazine, Al Jazeera, etc. Moreover, her comments have been widely published.
Rayhan Asat has received law and public policy graduate degrees from Harvard Law School, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, and the University of Oxford.
