Prof. Gül Okutan Nilsson

Gül Okutan Nilsson is a Professor of Commercial and Company Law and Director of Intellectual Property Law Research Center at the Istanbul Bilgi University.

She is a graduate of Robert College of Istanbul and Istanbul University Faculty of Law. She completed her LL.M. as a Jean Monnet Scholar at the Amsterdam School of International Relations in the field of European and International Trade Law. She obtained her Ph.D. in the field of private law at Istanbul University. During her Ph.D. studies she conducted research at the Hamburg Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Private Law as a Max Planck Scholar and at the Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne, Switzerland as a scholar of the Swiss Confederation. Her PhD Thesis on Shareholders’ Agreements in Joint Stock Companies won the 2001 Caga Law Award. She was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences, Visiting Scholar of the London Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and guest lecturer at the Vanderbilt University Law School. She has publications in company law and intellectual property law.

She was appointed as an assistant professor at the Commercial Law Department of Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law in 2002. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and Professor in 2017 at the same university.

She completed the Mediation Training Programme at Bilgi University and obtained the title of Mediator upon passing the certification exam in November 2019.