A teaching portfolio.

This was the first artificial-intelligence-and-law course offered at Başkent University’s Faculty of Law. It began with the relationship between AI and the social functions of law, and with how AI is transforming the fundamental concepts of the legal order. From there it worked through liability — fault-based liability for AI-generated damages, then strict liability — and into AI’s impact on contract law. Criminal law followed: the effects of AI on the objective and subjective elements of criminal liability, and the question of whether an AI system can be a perpetrator or a victim. The course then turned to intellectual property and the status of AI-generated works, to personal data protection in AI systems, and to AI’s effects on fundamental rights and freedoms. It closed on regulation: the EU AI Act and its risk-based approach, comparative national and international approaches to AI regulation, and the standing debate about legal personhood for AI.

This course covered Turkish information technology law and ethics in working detail. It included electronic instruments — the law of electronic signatures and notifications, the National Judicial Network Project (UYAP), and the Audio-Visual IT System (SEGBİS) — and the substantive areas of digital commercial life: e-consumer and e-commerce law, internet banking, electronic money, central-bank digital currency, and the law of cryptocurrencies. The cybercrime block ran through crimes against honour, private life, and general morality committed in digital environments, IT crimes and offences against property carried out through information systems, and virtual gambling and betting, alongside the law of intellectual property on the internet and in software — copyright, trademark, and domain names. From there the course turned to internet broadcasting law, forensic IT and digital evidence, the law of personal data protection under KVKK, telecommunications and cybersecurity law, technology development zones, digital tax law, and electronic procurement law. The closing block was on blockchain and AI law, with a practical session on dispute resolution in IT-law disputes.

This course took up the fundamental institutions of company law in the Turkish legal system. The first block laid out the broader commercial-law concepts that company law presupposes: the scope and application of the Turkish Commercial Code, the commercial enterprise, the legal status of merchants, the trade registry, commercial books and current accounts, trade names, and trademark law and unfair competition. The corporate-law block then moved through the basic framework of commercial companies and the partnership forms before turning to capital companies — first the general provisions, then the limited liability company, and then the joint stock company in detail, with particular attention to formation, corporate organs, operation, and shareholders’ rights. The course closed on structural changes in capital companies: mergers, divisions, and conversions.

This course traced the fundamental institutions of Turkish commercial law. It started with the basic concepts — commercial law itself, the commercial enterprise and the meaning of commercial affairs, merchant status and its legal consequences, commercial auxiliaries and commercial representation, trade names and business names, trademark, the trade registry, the current account, unfair competition, commercial books, and commercial jurisdiction. The partnership block then set out the concept and elements of partnership, the establishment, operation, and termination of ordinary partnerships, general and limited partnerships, and the two principal capital companies — the joint stock company (establishment, operation, general assembly, board of directors, auditors, securities, shareholders’ rights and obligations, and termination) and the limited liability company. Negotiable instruments closed the course: their definition and elements, the bill of exchange, the promissory note, and the cheque.

The course was built without a textbook. Information technology law moves too quickly for any single book to track, so the reading list was assembled across academic monographs, journal articles, and current online commentary, with students expected to follow specialist blogs and mainstream coverage alongside the primary materials. Eight thematic blocks were covered in turn: the foundations of IT law; digital rights and freedoms; data protection and privacy; cybersecurity and cybercrime; e-commerce and digital marketplaces; intellectual property in the digital world; robotics, AI, and legal ethics; and the broader question of technology, society, and future legal challenges. Throughout, the running question was whether the law is keeping pace with the technology it tries to govern.

The course ran through Irish media law across eight thematic blocks. The foundations came first: the role of the media in democratic society, the public-interest concept that anchors the rest of the syllabus, and freedom of expression as the constitutional baseline against which the rest of the law is read. From there it covered the regulation of the press and broadcast regulation as parallel regulatory regimes, the relationship between the media and the courts, and the doctrinal core: defamation, privacy, and data protection as it applies to journalistic activity. The thematic question throughout was how Irish law balances the public interest in expression against the competing interests of reputation, privacy, and dignity.

The course continued the EU Law sequence into the substantive law and policies of the Union, building on the institutional and constitutional groundwork of EU Law I. It worked across three main areas. The first was the free movement of goods — the Treaty provisions, secondary legislation, and case law on customs duties, charges having equivalent effect, internal taxation, quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect, and the exceptions and justifications that have grown up around them. The second was the free movement of persons and services: freedom of establishment, freedom to provide services, the free movement of workers and their families, and the development of EU citizenship as a free-standing legal status. The third was competition law and State aid: the meaning of ‘undertaking’, the scope and application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU on cartels and abuse of dominance, and the EU’s State aid regime.

Jurisprudence II turned legal theory toward its social and political stakes, building on the legal-positivism-and-natural-law foundations of Jurisprudence I. The opening block covered the social-contract tradition — Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau — read for what they say about the source and limits of legal authority. From there the course took up the obligation to obey the law and the legal enforcement of morality, working through the Hart-Devlin debate as the touchstone for the second question. Punishment came next, in two halves: consequentialist justifications and the retributivist tradition that has been re-asserted in modern criminal-law theory. The course closed on the democratic legitimacy of the European Union read as a jurisprudential question — where competing accounts of law’s authority meet a system that does not fit the standard models.

Law of Torts II shifted from the general principles of liability covered in Law of Torts I to specific torts protecting personal and proprietary interests. The trespass torts came first — trespass to the person and trespass to land — followed by the property and economic torts: nuisance, the rule in Rylands v Fletcher, and passing off. Reputation torts came next: defamation, deceit, and malicious falsehood, each read for the elements that mark out one cause of action from another. The course closed on vicarious liability — the doctrine that places the law of torts in its institutional context by asking when one party answers for another’s wrongdoing.