Prof. Yıldız graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1988. Then in 1993, he obtained his master's degree from Istanbul University. He got his doctorate in 2002 and became an associate professor in 2009. Prof. Yıldız received the professorship of law in 2015. He conducted his thesis studies at the Max-Planck Institute (Germany) with a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship and later with scholarships provided by TÜBİTAK and the Max-Planck Institute. Since 1989, Prof. Yıldız has worked as an academic at Istanbul University, Yeditepe University, Bahçeşehir University and Istanbul Ticaret University Faculty of Law. He is currently working at the Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law at the Turkish-German University Faculty of Law.
Berke Özenç is associate professor of public law at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul. He received his LLM from Istanbul University, which formed the basis for his book “European Convention on Human Rights and Freedom of Religion: Headscarf, Compulsory Religious-Education Lessons and Directorate of Religious Affairs Cases” (Kitap Yayınevi, 2006). Özenç obtained his PhD from Istanbul University on the topic "Origins of the Rule of Law and its Function at the Age of Globalization" in 2012. A revised version of his PhD was published by İletişim Yayınları, under the same title, in 2014. His new book, published recently by İletişim Yayınları, is “Guarding the Democracy and Constitution”. His research fields include state theory, human rights and Weimar Republic. He has published several articles on human rights in Turkish academic journals.
He was born in 1994 in Ankara. He graduated from Ankara Atatürk Anatolian High School in 2011 and from İstanbul Şehir University Faculty of Law in 2016. He completed the Public Law Graduate Program at İstanbul Şehir University Social Sciences Institute, which he started in 2016, in 2019 by defending the thesis "The regulative power of executive by law-amending decrees and presidential decrees under 1982 constitution". Still, he is a doctorand at Marmara University Social Sciences Institute Public Law Doctorate Program.
Karen Klein graduated in 2006 from the University of Mannheim with the First State Examination in Law. She went on to earn a doctorate in the field of contemporary legal history. Following this, she completed her legal clerkship at the Mannheim Regional Court, passing with the Second State Examination in Law. After completing her education, she worked for five years in a German law firm with a focus on commercial cases, specializing in the area of compliance. Additionally, she taught presentation techniques as a lecturer at the University of Mannheim. Since 2016, Karen Klein has been a lecturer funded by the German Academic Exchange Service at the Turkish-German University. In 2022, she was given the responsibility of the German coordination at the Faculty of Law. Her areas of expertise in teaching and research include civil law and compliance.