bali@law.ucla.edu

Bali commented: "In the case of Iran, each new sanctions package has come to represent further evidence of the absence of a coherent and rational approach to an eminently containable threat. As sanctions have become an end in themselves, the drive for further such measures may serve to undermine any prospect for progress on the Iranian front, thereby also undermining the putative goals of the US and the EU."
Asli Bali is acting professor of law at the UCLA School of Law and an editor of Middle East Report. Her research focuses on public international law, comparative legal systems of the Middle East and civil and immigrants' rights in the United States.