Prof. Dr. Zeynep Derya Tarman (Koç University): Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Divorce Decrees in Turkey

About the Speaker:
Zeynep Derya Tarman is a full-time Professor at Koç University Law School. She teaches core courses on Private International Law in the undergraduate program and Dispute Resolution Methods in the LLM program at the Law School. She also delivers the law module in the executive MBA program at GSB.

Z. Derya Tarman holds a law degree from University of Istanbul and LLM degrees from The Netherlands and Germany. Derya Tarman received her doctorate in Private Law from Constance University in Germany. She has been working as a full-time faculty member at Koc University Law School since 2006. She was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2014, and to the rank of Professor in 2019. After starting at Koc University she conducted research at Max Planck Institutes in Hamburg and Luxembourg. She took part in the Harvard University-Koç University Visiting Scholar Program. Her research has been published in leading international and national law journals and she published books on the “Scope of the Vienna Sales Convention” and “The Applicable Law on Unfair Competition”. In line with her research output, she was awarded the Outstanding Teaching award at the Law School in 2017 and the BAGEP Award in 2018. In her recent work she focuses on Business &Human Rights and Migration.

About the Topic:
Technological advances have not only affected international trade, but also social interaction between people. As the world becomes more globalised, the social boundaries between individuals have slowly begun to disappear, giving rise to many international relationships. From a Turkish private international law practitioner's point of view, the legal implications of such relationships are even more significant, considering that there are more than 6.5 million Turkish citizens living abroad. The recognition of foreign divorce decrees in Turkey is one of the most important legal aspects of the consequences of such international relationships.

This presentation will explain the legal regime of recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments under Turkish law with a special focus on the recognition of foreign divorce decree.

About the Seminar Series:
The seminar series “Current Research on Turkish Law” regularly invites outstanding scholars and practitioners working on different topics of Turkish private law to present and discuss their findings. The seminar series particularly aims to create a platform where both international researchers interested in Turkish law and Turkish researchers working on comparative law can come together and exchange scholarly ideas. Participation is open to all interested students and researchers.