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Faculty of Law - Dean's Message

Dean’s Message,

We raise the lawyers needed in a Constitutional State…”

Our faculty which started to operate in 2000-2001 academic year, raises high quality young lawyers who knows the Turkish positive law as well as universal law principles and comparative law very well and has the ability to utilize at least one foreign language in professional life. Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Law has the criteria of becoming an assertive education institution in the world standards in the field of Turkish law as well as international law and comparative law systems through its academic staff which have a corner in their field.

Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Law applies an education program which gives place to compulsory courses that must absolutely be in the program of faculties of law and a balanced combination of elective courses such as virtual court and clinical courses managed by specialized appliers linked to especially foreign law systems and applied law as well as it contains Legal English.

Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Law has been forming its schedule in such a manner to include international law more as of its first year of establishment. Relations with faculties of law in Europe are founded within the scope of Erasmus program and student and faculty exchanges are conducted termly. Besides adopting different legal systems, agreements are executed with American faculties of law, in addition to increasing the students’ professional English language experiences, they are provided to learn foreign law to some extent via Global Legal Programs Directorate (IGUL). Our faculty has been integrated into international law education by including the courses in faculties of law, with which we agree, into our program. Our graduates are accepted into master and doctor of philosophy programs in faculties of law at leading Europe and America.

Dean of the Faculty of Law

Prof. Dr. Ayşe NUHOĞLU

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  • Bahçeşehir University's Faculty of Law constituted the Institute for Global Understanding of Rule of Law (IGUL) in order to create a common global approach based on the principles of rule of law and to cooperate with professionals with international experience.
    IGUL gives great importance to train the police officials and the members of judicial activities. To serve this aim, IGUL is in cooperation with many official and private institutions from many different countries. IGUL organizes many conferences, seminars and certificate programs on various subjects and invites valuable, wise and well-known professors and professionals from different locations of the world. With these, the participants get the opportunity to follow the new regulations of Turkish law and also learn about the comparative law.

    IGUL, while trying to create and strengthen a common approach towards rule of law, makes efforts to provide an international academic platform. IGUL has given thousands of certificates to its participants.

    The directors of IGUL are Prof. Feridun Yenisey, Prof. Tom Read and Prof. John Sonsteng.