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Assoc. Prof. Elif Küzeci

Assoc. Professor of Law and Vice Dean at Bilkent University Faculty of Law

Elif Küzeci is an Associate Professor of Law and Vice Dean at Bilkent University Faculty of Law (Ankara, Türkiye). Her research focuses on public law, privacy, data protection, and the legal implications of emerging technologies, particularly how digital transformation is reshaping legal systems and state power.

She earned her PhD with a dissertation on data protection law, one of the earliest comprehensive studies in this field in Türkiye, and was invited as an expert to the Turkish Parliament during the drafting of the Personal Data Protection Act in 2016. She currently chairs the Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Group of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO and serves as Associate Editor of the International Data Privacy Law Journal (IDPL). She is also a founding member and former chair of the Internet Society-Türkiye Chapter (ISOC-TR).

Committed to interdisciplinary and international collaboration, Küzeci has conducted research and teaching activities at leading global institutions. She was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2016–2017; 2019), and has held research visits at the University of Cologne and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She has also delivered seminars at the University of Zaragoza and the University of Bologna.

In January 2026, her project Ethical and Legal Analysis of Neurotechnologies, in which she serves as principal investigator, was funded under the TÜBİTAK 1001 program.