ConsultantProf. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Yeşim M. ATAMER
Yeşim M. Atamer received her undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate degrees from Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Then she worked as an associate professor in 2006 and a professor in 2012 at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law. Atamer has been appointed as a professor of private law, business law, European law, and comparative law at the University of Bern in Switzerland in the 2019-2020 academic year, and at the University of Zürich since February 2020. Her main areas of research are the law of domestic and international sale of goods, Turkish and EU consumer law, and harmonization of European contract law.
As a scholar of the European Union Jean Monnet program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Max Planck Society, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) she has conducted research in Lausanne, Basel, Rome, Munich, Hamburg, and Cambridge (USA). In 2007 she was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist Award by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). She is elected member of the Science Academy (Turkey), Academia Europaea, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law. Yeşim M. Atamer, who has been both a visiting professor and a visiting researcher in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, has many books, book chapters, and articles published in English, German and Turkish. She is the consultant of the Competition Law and Policy Research Centre.
Areas of Study: Private Law, Business Law, European Law, Comparative Law
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E-mail: yesim.atamer@rwi.uzh.ch