"A Better Legal Education for the Rule of Law" at Bahçeşehir University

The Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law has launched a new initiative on "A Better Legal Education for the Rule of Law" together with legal experts from the USA and Germany

Faculty members of the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law and 18 scholars from various law schools in the USA and Germany are launching a law program with a completely new approach at Bahçeşehir University. The initiative is led by Bahçeşehir University faculty member and world-renowned criminal law scholar Prof. Dr. Feridun Yenisey.

A first in legal education in Türkiye and the world, this initiative aims to give legal education a more universal structure by bringing together different teaching practices in legal education around the world. With this initiative, Bahçeşehir University believes that common legal concepts must become universal so that law, whose importance for individuals in the world and in our country is indisputable, can function in a healthier and more excellent way, and considers this to be of vital importance.

The initiative, which includes leading schools such as University of California-Irvine School of Law, William Mitchell College of Law, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law, Seattle University School of Law, Touro Law Center, Hamline University School of Law, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles, South Texas College of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Faulkner University Jones School of Law from the USA, and the University of Freiburg, Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute from Germany, envisages a number of changes in the curriculum and flow of legal education.

Accordingly, practical training will shift to courts and law firms, professional trips will be organized, opportunities will be offered to work and meet with legal professionals from different countries around the world, and academic and student exchange programs will become more frequent. With this new initiative, which will also support students' participation in international law competitions, special programs will be developed to equip students with the skills needed to correspond in a foreign language.