Burcu Yüksel

Professor Yüksel Ripley holds a Personal Chair in Law, specialising in private international law, commercial aspects of international trade and finance law, and legal issues concerning crypto/digital assets. She is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.    

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 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 

Professor Yüksel Ripley holds a Personal Chair in Law, specialising in private international law, commercial aspects of international trade and finance law, and legal issues concerning crypto/digital assets. She is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.    

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 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 Transfer) 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 an EAPIL representative at the HCCH Digital Tokens Project Experts' Group and was a pro-bono subject matter expert consultant at the project's exploratory phase. 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. She is also a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellow focusing on digital assets. Formerly, she was a NERC Fellow of the Digital Environment Expert Network, and a Special Rapporteur for the UK for the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL)’s General Report on ‘Cryptocurrencies: the impossible domestic law regime?’.

 Hukuk (The Law Applicable to International Electronic Funds Transfer) 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 an EAPIL representative at the HCCH Digital Tokens Project Experts' Group and was a pro-bono subject matter expert consultant at the project's exploratory phase. 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. She is also a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellow focusing on digital assets. Formerly, she was a NERC Fellow of the Digital Environment Expert Network, and a Special Rapporteur for the UK for the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL)’s General Report on ‘Cryptocurrencies: the impossible domestic law regime?’.