Yeşim Müride Atamer - Biography#

Yeşim M. Atamer studied law at Istanbul University Law Faculty, where she also obtained her LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees. As of February 2019, she started to work as a professor of Civil Law and Comparative Civil Law at Bern University, and also as adjunct professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. 2000-2018 she served as a professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her main areas of research are law of domestic and international sale of goods, Turkish and EU consumer law with a special focus on behavioural economics, 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, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit)and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey she has conducted research in Lausanne, Basel, Rome, Munich, Hamburg and Cambridge (USA). In 2007 she was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist Award of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. 2007-2019 she has been the vice director of the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University. She is elected titular member of the Science Academy, Turkey; the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, where she served as president 2016-2018. Atamer is also member of the Swiss Lawyers Association, German Association of Comparative Law, the European Law Institute, and the Society of European Contract Law.