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Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- b.yuksel@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273602
- Office Address
School of Law
Taylor Building, Room D40
Aberdeen
AB24 3UB
- School/Department
- School of Law
Biography
Professor Yüksel Ripley specialises in private international law, commercial aspects of international trade law, and crypto/digital assets. She is the Theme Coordinator for commercial and trade law LLMs and a former Director of the Centre for Commercial Law.
Burcu obtained her LLB and PhD in Private International Law (Turkey), and her LLM in International and Comparative Business Law (England). Before joining the University of Aberdeen, she worked at the Department of Private International Law at Ankara University Law Faculty. She also practised law and worked at the Export Credit Bank of Turkey (Turk Eximbank).
Burcu has published on private international law, international trade law, international payments, international commercial dispute resolution, crypto/digital assets, and Turkish law. She is the author of Uluslararası Elektronik Fon Transferine Uygulanacak Hukuk (The Law Applicable to International Electronic Funds Transfers) and co-editor of Turkish and EU Private International Law, Cross-Border Litigation in Europe, and From Theory to Practice in Private International Law: Gedächtnisschrift for Professor Jonathan Fitchen. She has been involved in several internationally collaborative research projects and appointed by courts in the UK and Turkey to give expert opinion evidence.
Burcu is a pro-bono subject matter expert consultant for the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Digital Tokens Project. She is a member of the CBDC Academic Advisory Group of the Bank of England and HM Treasury and of the Advisory Panel of the Digital assets and ETDs in private international law: which court, which law? project. Formerly, she was a NERC Fellow of the Digital Environment Expert Network; a Special Rapporteur for the UK for the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL)’s General Report on ‘Cryptocurrencies: the impossible domestic law regime?’, and an Observer on the Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and Emerging Technologies.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Director, Centre for Commercial Law (2020-2023); Co-Director (2019-2020) and Associate Director (2018-2019)
Programme Coordinator, Commercial Law Themed LLMs (online, on-campus and blended) with a focus on international commercial law, international trade law and sustainability
Senior Personal Tutor in the Law School (2020-2022)
Chair, School Student Support Committee (2021-2022)
Member, University Student Support Committee (2020-2022)
Member, University Senior Pastoral Support & Guidance Forum (2020-2022)
Member, School Research Committee (2020-2023)
Member, School Education Committee (2020-2022)
Member, School Postgraduate Research Committee (2020-2023)
Member, School Postgraduate Taught Policy Committee
Member, School CB Davidson Bequest Fund and Bursaries and Endowments Committee (2016-2020)
Member, Centre for Private International Law (2012-2022)
- External Memberships
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Pro-bono subject matter expert consultant, Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Digital Tokens Project
Member, Advisory Panel of Digital assets and ETDs in private international law: which court, which law?
Member, CBDC Academic Advisory Group of the Bank of England and HM Treasury
NERC Constructing a Digital Environment (CDE) Fellow, Digital Environment Expert Network as part of the NERC/UKRI ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Programme (2020-2023)
Special Rapporteur for the UK, International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL)’s General Report on ‘Cryptocurrencies: the impossible domestic law regime?’ (Asunción 2022 General Congress, Topic IX.C)
Observer, Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and Emerging Technologies of the Uniform Law Commission and the American Law Institute (2021-2022)
Member, International Private Law Reference Group of Law Society of Scotland
Member, Young ISTAC (Istanbul Arbitration Centre, Turkey)
Member, IACPIL (Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law, Austria)
Member, EAPIL (European Association of Private International Law, Luxembourg)
External Examiner, University of Edinburgh
External Examiner, Edinburgh Napier University
- Research
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Research Overview
Burcu's research interests are in the following areas:
- international trade and finance law
- private international law (international jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in civil, commercial and family law matters),
- international payments
- international commercial law and dispute resolution,
- law and technology (including digitalisation, digital assets and in particular cryptocurrencies, distributed ledger technology and blockchain),
- Turkish law.
Current Research
Burcu is currently researching on digitalisation in international trade, digital assets, distributed ledger technology and blockchain. She is particularly interested in conflict of laws and emerging technology.
Funding and Grants
- 2023- present: Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Research Workshops Grant (Position held: Principal Investigator)
- 2021- 2023: Time to Become Digital in Law (DIGinLaw), funded by the European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme (Position held: Co-Investigator).
- 2020- 2023: NERC Constructing a Digital Environment (CDE) Fellow of the Digital Environment Expert Network, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), NERC/UKRI ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Programme.
- 2014- 2016: Cross-Border Litigation in Europe: Private International Law Legislative Framework, National Courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (EUPILLAR), JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4635, funded by the European Commission, Civil Justice Programme (Position held: Researcher).
- 2012- 2013: Cross-Border Litigation in Europe (series of workshops), EU Private International Law Research Network, funded by the European Commission, Jean Monnet Scheme (Position held: National Coordinator for Turkey).
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Undergraduate:
- LS2532 Private International Law
- LS401Q/LX401Q Private International Law of Commercial Law Honours
- LS451U/LS451U International Trade Law Honours (Course Coordinator)
Postgraduate:
- LS508A International Trade and Finance Law
- LS502K Comparative Contract Law for International Transactions
- LS5909 Professional Skills: International Trade Negotiation (Course Coordinator)
- LS503D/LS553D Financing of International Sales (online) (Course Coordinator)
- LS503B/LS553B International Sale of Goods (online)
- LS5811 Law, Business, Security: Petroleum Data Management
Previously:
- LS1520 Contract
- LS2032 Public International Law
- LS2536 Introduction to Comparative Law
- LS502Q Private International Law- Jurisdiction, Recognition & Enforcement
- LS5098 World Trade Organisation: GATT
- LS553A Core Principles of WTO Law (online) (Course Coordinator)
- Publications
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When is a cryptocurrency transfer international in distributed ledger technology-based systems?
EU and Comparative Law Issues and Challenges (ECLIC), vol. 7, no. Special Issue - Law in the Age of Modern Technologies, pp. 181-201Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUnited Kingdom (UK) Report for Questionnaire in View of the General Report on Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?
Commissioned by International Academy of Comparative Law. 116 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsResponse to Bank of England and HM Treasury Consultation on the Digital Pound: A New Form of Money for Households and Businesses?
University of Aberdeen: School of Law (pdf). 4 pages.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsResponse to UK Government Consultation and Call for Evidence on the Future Financial Services Regulatory Regime for Cryptoassets
University of Aberdeen: School of Law (Document).Other Contributions: Other ContributionsResponse to UNIDROIT Digital Assets and Private Law Consultation
University of Aberdeen: School of Law (Document). 12 pages.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsResponse to UK Parliament Special Public Bill Committee's Inquiry on Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL]
UK Parliament. 5 pages.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsUNITED KINGDOM (UK) REPORT with a focus on the law of England and Wales and the law of Scotland
Cryptocurrencies: The Impossible Domestic Law Regime?. Lehmann, M., Morishita, T. (eds.). IntersentiaChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersResponse to Law Commission of England and Wales Consultation on Digital Assets
University of Aberdeen: School of Law (document).Other Contributions: Other ContributionsResponse to UK Parliament Call for Evidence on the Crypto-Asset Industry
University of Aberdeen: School of Law.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsDigital Assets Law Reform in England and Wales and Prospects for Scotland
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites