Founded in 2008, Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Law has continued to contribute significantly to legal education and teaching since its establishment. Many of its graduates have gone on to pursue traditional legal professions such as law, judiciary and prosecution.

In addition to the mandatory courses offered in all law faculties, emerging legal disciplines that are expected to have significant practical applications in the future are also offered as elective courses to students. Our aim and mission is to educate legal professionals who have received a solid legal education and have developed a conscious reflex for legal thinking. The guidance our graduates provide to legal practice and legal education is the cornerstone of the structure of education at our faculty.

With the awareness that a good legal education is a prerequisite for a good justice system, each of our students is accepted as a ‘colleague’ from the first year onwards and is educated with the self-confidence of a ‘legal practitioner’ and ‘legal scholar’ appropriate to the responsibilities they will assume in the future.

Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Law not only educates its own students, but also facilitates and creates an environment for the mutual exchange of knowledge and ideas among legal scholars, lawyers, judges and prosecutors through the scientific symposiums, congresses and seminars it organises. Our students are given priority and encouraged to participate in all scientific meetings related to legal science.

Considering the international mobility of individuals and capital, the importance of foreign languages and international connections in legal education should not be overlooked or neglected. However, with the understanding that no ‘law student’ should be forced to learn a foreign language, which could undermine their motivation to study and love law, we offer and encourage our students who wish to do so to learn many foreign languages that are valid and widely spoken internationally, which are offered in other departments of our university.

Within the framework of the student exchange agreements we have made with faculties in foreign countries, our students who meet the application requirements are sent to many of Europe's best universities offering legal education, such as the Law Faculties of the University of Potsdam, the University of Vienna, the University of Münster, the University of Bielefeld, and the University of Pordenone, with the aim of increasing their knowledge and experience and developing their legal thinking structures within the scope of comparative law.

We are aware that a good legal education cannot be achieved solely through theoretical compulsory courses; it also requires law students to be directly involved in the practice of law. For this reason, our students are required to complete a one-day internship per week at law firms or courts. Thus, our students will witness and gain experience in the direct and uninterrupted application of the legal knowledge they learn in class, and will be ready for their profession upon graduation. The benefit of getting to know the profession they plan to pursue in the future while still a student is undeniable.  

Dean: Prof. Dr. Vahit Doğan