Ali Ekber Çınar (Principal research director)
Doctoral student at McGill University Faculty of Law
Ali Ekber Çınar (email: ali.ekber.cinar@isar.org.tr) is a doctoral student at McGill University Faculty of Law and the principal research director of "Copyright in Islamic Law" project, which he has been directing since 2020 at ISAR Research Center. Previously, he has completed the four-year extracurricular program in Islamic studies at ISAR as well as his law degrees (LLM at Istanbul, LLB at Galatasaray). His research interests include computational legal studies, comparative law, and Islamic law and finance.
Eyup Kun
PhD Researcher at KU Leuven
Currently, he is a doctoral researcher at KU Leuven Center for IT and IP Law since February 2021. He conducts his doctoral research on the intersection of cybersecurity and data protection law in the digital economy in addition to his involvement in the ENSURESEC project funded by European Union Horizon 2020.
Mustafa Ince
Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant in the Department of Islamic Law at Istanbul University
Mustafa Ince, who holds both law and theology degrees, graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Theology in 2020 and the Faculty of Law in 2022. In addition to his formal education, he graduated from Abdullah Tivnikli Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (ISAR)'s 5-year intensive Arabic, English, Islamic sciences, and social sciences education program in 2022. He received his master's degree in Islamic Law from the same university in 2023 with a thesis titled "Courts as a Tool of Social Control in the Modernization Process: The Case of Nizamiye Courts." He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Islamic Law at Istanbul University and a research assistant in the same department.
Mücahide Engin
PhD student at Marmara University & Manuscript specialist at the Presidency of the Manuscripts Institution of Turkey.
Mücahide Engin is doctoral student in Islamic Law at the Marmara University. She graduated from Istanbul Şehir University, Faculty of Islamic Studies with a double major in Political Science and International Relations. She completed her master’s degree in Islamic Studies at Istanbul Şehir University and graduated from Marmara University. The topic of her dissertation revolved around the examination of the literature on intellectual property in the context of Islamic law and titled as "Intellectual Property Discussions in Contemporary Islamic Law".
Yavuz Selim Kol
PhD Student at Istanbul University and Research Assistant at Sakarya University in the Department of Private Law
Yavuz Selim Kol obtained his undergraduate degree from Istanbul Şehir University Faculty of Law. He completed his master's degree in the private law program at Marmara University with his thesis titled "The Limits of Consumer's Right to Withdraw from the Contract" Currently, he is pursuing his studies in the private law doctoral program at Istanbul University.