Academic Staff

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Akduman studied at İzmir Özel Türk Koleji (earned high school diploma) between the years of 1982 - 1989. She completed her undergraduate study at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Law, İzmir (earned LL.B. degree) between the years of 1989 - 1993. After completion of her legal internship in İzmir in 1994, she worked as a trainee and translator at P. D. Ryan & Co. Solicitors, London. She completed her postgraduate study in international and comparative law at Vrije University, Faculty of Law, Brussels by defending her thesis titled “Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements in International Transactions” (earned LL.M. degree) between the years of 1997 - 1998. During this period, she also did internship in the European Union Commission. She worked in İstanbul as a legal consultant at foreign partnerships and multinational companies, including Ernst & Young, and as a teaching staff member at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law, Private International Law Department between the years of 1998 - 2010. She completed her postgraduate study in private law at Marmara University, Social Sciences Institute, İstanbul by defending her thesis titled “Share Transfers in Private International Law” (earned Ph.D. degree) between the years of 2004 - 2010. She worked as a freelance translator in New York while pursuing academic research between the years of 2010 - 2013. She was appointed as an assistant professor at İzmir University of Economics, Faculty of Law in 2013. Currently, she continues her academic studies in private international law and European Union law.

Professor Dr. Zeynep ŞİŞLİ, graduated from Ankara Halide Edip High School in 1976. She has been in USA for 1976-1977 school year as an AFS Exchange Student. She has received her Bachelors Degree in 1985 from Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Law. She worked as a lawyer between the years 1988-2009 in Izmir. She has received M.D in 2002 and Ph.D in 2007 from Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Department of Dokuz Eylül University. She worked as a Visiting Faculty member in Dokuz Eylül University and İzmir University of Economics. She has joined the Department of Business Administration in University of Economics as an assistant professor in 2009 and has been working at Faculty of Law since 2011. She has been promoted to associate professor degree on social policy by Inter-Universities Council of Turkey on April 15, 2015. She has appointed as a professor on March 30, 2021. She worked as a visiting researcher in University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment(UCLA IRLE)between September 20, 2016 and September 13, 2107 according to "the Regulation for Overseas Program of Izmir University of Economics" about "Roles of the Institutions and State Agencies for Promoting and Enforcing Occupational Health and Safety Rules; A Comparison between U.S.A. and Turkey", and has been awarded a grant by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey(TUBİTAK 2219). She works on Social Rights, Labor Law, Social Security Law and Occupational Health and Safety Law.

After completing her undergraduate education at İzmir Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law in 1984, she started to work as a research assistant in the civil law department at DEU Faculty of Law in the same year. She completed her undergraduate and doctorate degrees in Ankara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Private Law. She prepared her master's thesis on “Time-Sharing Property Rights” and her doctoral thesis on “Compensation of positive damage for the Debitor’s default in contract that imposes obligations on both parties.” During the writing of her doctoral thesis, she was a visiting scholar at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-University in Münster, Germany, under the auspices of Prof.Dr.Wlfried Schüter, within the framework of a 14-month research grant she received from the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD). Later on, she worked at the University of Münster to do post-doctoral research at the invitation of the DAAD institution. Prof. Havutcu was appointed as an associate professor at Galatasaray University Faculty of Law in 1999. After working at Galatasaray University for two years, DEU. She returned to the Faculty of Law and was promoted to professor at DEU Faculty of Law in 2006. Prof. Havutcu worked as a permanent staff at Izmir Yaşar University Faculty of Law between 2011-2021. During her academic life, she taught civil law at various universities such as Cyprus Near East University and Istanbul Bilgi University, in addition to the universities where she worked as a permanent staff. Since January 2022, she started to work as a permanent staff at Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Law. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Havutcu's main areas of interest are Law of Obligations, Law of Liability, Family Law, Law of Persons, Law of Consumers, Law of General Transaction Conditions, Law of Version-Distribution Agreements and Systems, Producer's responsibility.

Assistant Professor Cem Özcan got the Bachelor degree from the Faculty of Law at Galatasaray University in 2001. He received Master Degree in 2002 at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and earned his PhD in 2009, from the University Paris 10 Nanterre, in France. He devotes most of his research to Civil Law and Law of Obligations in particular. He served as Asst.Prof.Dr at İstanbul Aydın University and İzmir University.

Mehmet Akif Gül completed his undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law in 2011. In 2015, he defended his thesis titled `Procedural Enforcement Barrriers in accordance with the New York Conventinon of 1958` and got his Master’s degree at Galatasaray University Institute of Social Sciences, which he started in 2012. In 2021, he completed his PhD program in Private Law at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences, which he started in 2016, by defending his doctoral thesis titled “Value in Dispute in Civil Procedure Law”. He speaks English and German and his main field of study is civil procedure and enforcement & bankruptcy law.