Dr. Zeynep Yıldırım-Türkyılmaz graduated from Galatasaray University Law School in 2003. She completed her mandatory internship for admission to the Istanbul Bar Association and received her first LLM degree from Galatasaray University in 2005. As a Jean Monnet scholar, she did an LLM in banking law and financial regulation at the London School of Economics.
After having worked as an attorney in Istanbul and at the EIB under its in-service training programme, she served as a rapporteur-lawyer at the ECtHR between 2009-2013. She was research assistant at the Sciences Po Paris between 2013-2016. Dr. Zeynep Yıldırım was awarded her PhD degree in law on the basis of her thesis on international dispute settlement systems in 2023. She has taught international human rights law, comparative constitutional law and arbitration in Paris and Reims campuses.
She is focusing on the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, the WTO Dispute Settlement System, the ICSID and the CAS. Aside from legal protection of human rights at national and international levels (UN, Council of Europe, European Union, Organisation of American States, African Union), she is working on the ever-growing impact of human rights law on and its application in other fields of law and regulation.
