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Book Part UNIDROIT(Mohr Siebeck, 2025) Kapancı, Kadir BerkThis volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine how diverse legal systems - both common law and civil law, national and international - approach the questions of control and ownership of digital assets. The comparative inquiry reveals not only doctrinal differences, but also shared concerns over legal certainty, market efficiency, and the adaptation of traditional legal categories to new technologies. The chapters traverse a wide range of jurisdictions. Contributions from Germany, France, Switzerland, and Australia illustrate how civil law systems grapple with the limitations of traditional doctrines of tangibility. The United States chapter analyzes the introduction of Article 12 to the Uniform Commercial Code, with its creation of »controllable electronic records«. The United Kingdom and Brazil chapters demonstrate how common law and hybrid systems have sought to adapt flexible doctrines to novel technical architectures. The Hong Kong and Singapore chapters show how Asian common law jurisdictions combine pragmatic judicial reasoning with increasingly granular regulatory oversight. The Mexico chapter highlights how pioneering statutory definitions-such as those in the 2018 Fintech Act-proved both innovative and unduly narrow, creating gaps in the classification of assets under private law. The Taiwan chapter examines the courts' characterization of virtual assets as »movable things,« while suggesting a shift toward a ledger-based model of public notice. Finally, the chapter on UNIDROIT's Digital Assets and Private Law Principles (DAPL) situates these national approaches within an emerging body of international soft law, where the concept of »control« serves as a functional analogue to possession. Taken together, these contributions illustrate convergence in recognizing that digital assets must be capable of being treated as objects of property rights, while also exposing divergence in the doctrinal and institutional means by which that recognition is achieved.Conference Object General Principles of Transitional Justice and the Turkish Context(Euro Med, 2025) Dinçer, HülyaThis paper was presented in the international conference on "Transitional justice in the MENA Region: Challenges and Opportunities" organized by EuroMed and Human Rights Association on February 8-9 2025 in Istanbul. The paper address how the fundamental principles of transitional justice such as legal accountability, truth-telling and the guarantees of non-repetition be applied effectively in Turkey's current political and social climate.Book Part The Right to Dignity at Work(Brill | Nijhoff, 2025) Akyürek, Güçlü; Adınır, Canan Ünal; Çatalkaya, Deniz UganBook Part Determining Effects of Authoritarianism on Executive Power and Public Administration in Turkey(Springer, 2023) Sevinç, Zeliha HacımuratlarThe increasingly authoritarian regime in Turkey has been the subject of many studies in constitutional law and political science. As per the planned neoliberal policies put into action, the role of the state was redefined in 2001 and new elements were added to the administrative structure to play that role. Although the authoritarianism was being experienced with all these aspects in Turkey, a threshold was crossed especially with the experience of the state of emergency of 2016–2018. Clearly, Turkey can no longer be described as a constitutional democracy after the thresholds it has crossed on the way to authoritarianism. What made this transition easy is the legacy of the political regime/culture and public law that has carried on from the past. It can be said that even if Turkey’s shortcomings in terms as organization in line with the requirements of a pluralist, participatory, and deliberative democracy, and the rule of law during the time of the 1982 Constitution did not render today’s authoritarian order mandatory, it has certainly made it possible. In this section, I will examine the transformation effects of the authoritarianism that Turkey has experienced since the 2000s on the executive and administrative organization in the context of the rule of law and pluralist, participatory, and deliberative democracy.Conference Object The Impact of the Force Majeure on Contractual Obligatıons Special Report on the United Nations Convention on The Contracts for The International Sales of Goods (cisg)(International Academy of Comparative Law, 2022) Kapancı, Kadir BerkThe effect of force majeure on contracts has possibly been the most debated subject of the law of contracts in the past two years. In this report, the effect of force majeure on the contracts for the international sale of goods will be analyzed withi n the context of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Even though the CISG does not directly refer the concept offorce majeure, the issue is dealt with under the highly controversial article 79 of the CISG. In this report, the conditions and consequences of exemption from liability under the article 79 will be examined.Conference Object Can quantative analysis boost qualitiy? An empirical research for Turkish administered justice, health and education systems(..., 2022) Kapancı, Kadir BerkJustice, health and education systems are the most important pillars of the social state. As a social state, Turkey undertakes in its Constitution to provide state administered justice(art.9), health (art. 56) and education (art. 42). Undoubtedly, the accessibility, quality and reliability of these systems would also increase the trust in the state. However, the efficiency of these relevant services is highly debated in Turkey. The aim of this research is to examine whether performance-based evaluations are included in these relevant systems and also discuss possible suggestions for all three systems. The research consists of three sections:The first section aims to evaluate the performance-based quantitative assessment in the state administered justice system in Turkey. In this system, the performance-based quantitative assessment is used mainly for the purposes of promotion of the judges and the prosecutors. The second section aims to evaluate a possible system of performance-based quantitative assessment in the public health system in Turkey. The third section aims to evaluate a possible system of performance-based quantitative assessment in the education system in Turkey. Accordingly, this research aims to analyze whether it is possible to develop high tech performance-based quantitative assessment systems to boost quality in the justice, health and education services, further to evaluate the extent of the human supervision in order to ensure the compliance to legal rights of individuals in order to prevent possible unexpected and unwanted violations(especially in the field of personal data protection) without enabling any undue influence based on subjective values.Book Part The rights of the child in Turkey(Springer, 2022) Başoğlu, Başak; Kapancı, Kadir BerkChildren are the core element and the future of a society. However, they are also relatively weak and thus need to be specially protected. Turkish private law, in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, provides a variety of rights to children. The basic rights of the children are regulated under the Turkish Civil Code of 2002. Furthermore, the Turkish Labor Code of 2003, Turkish Penal Code of 2005, Turkish Criminal Procedural Code of 2005, Child Protection Code of 2005 and the Law on the Protection of the Family and the Prevention of Violence Against Women of 2013 also provide special rights and protective measures for children. Accordingly, this paper aims to present an overview of children’s basic rights and the protection mechanisms for children under Turkish Civil Code.Conference Object A bridge “Maybe” too far: Granting legal personality to animals?(University of Antwerp, 2021) Başoğlu, Başak; Kapancı, Kadir BerkTurkish legal system, like all other legal systems is developed by persons and thus, the >main distinction is made between persons and objects (persona and res). According to thistraditional distinction, animals which are not humans but being “other” species in our World,have mostly been considered as objects and thus subject to personal property. In these personorientedlegal systems, including the Turkish one, even the rules relating to animals essentiallyaims to protect the owner of the animals, but not the animals themselves.However, today this paradigm is slowly challenged as “right to life” (to some extent) isgranted to animals under many legal systems (for instance under the Turkish Law on Protectionof Animals dated 24 June 2004). Nevertheless, the boundaries of this right are the interests ofthe people. Unfortunately, the concepts of animal dignity and right to life do not provide enoughprotection to animals. But what could be the solution to better protect the animals? Grantinglegal personality to the animals? Perhaps it is a bridge too far…Throughout the history, personality have been granted to different objects if it isbeneficial and feasible to do so. Accordingly, this paper firstly aims to evaluate whether it isbeneficial and feasible to grant legal personality -partially or as a whole- to the animals. Underthis first sub-title we will discuss as well whether granting to each and every animal a separatepersonality or a sole conceptual one to the entire nature including the animals. Secondly ourwork further targets to reconsider the traditional distinction of persons and things to provide amore specific legal status for animals. Perhaps such a reconsideration could enable us to solveanother controversial issue of our contemporary world: that is the legal status of “strong”artificial intelligence. Moreover, our discussions will comprise the analyse of the legal statusof the “ancient roman law’s slave”, considered as an object though a human being, benefitingfrom different types of legal protection at different levels, at different times. Across the saidcomparisons, at the end, we would like to reach a robust conclusion.Conference Object General Risk Liability Under the Turkish Code of Obligations and Its Implications in Insurance Law: Is It a "frankenstein's Monster"?(Koç Üniversitesi, 2021) Kapancı, Kadir Berk; Başoğlu, BaşakRisk liability is the strongest of all types of non-contractual liabilities. It is a strict liabilitywhere demonstrating that there is no causality is the only way to be exempted. Therefore, risk liabilitycan never be considered without insurance. This type of liability is usually regulated for specific typesof risks. So, there is always a typical risk defined for a particular operational activity which may causeunavoidable frequent or severe damage, regardless of how much due care is taken.In 2012, Turkish Code of Obligations has introduced a new general clause on risk liabilitywhich is applicable to all kinds of dangerous activities without defining the specific type of risk (art.71). According to this provision, liability could be established if it is demonstrated that an activity ofan enterprise causes an inevitable and significant danger. The said provision is stipulated as follows:“When damage occurs from the activity of an enterprise presenting a significantrisk, the owner of such enterprise and, if any, the operator are severally liable for suchdamage.Considering the nature of the enterprise or materials, tools or powers used in theactivity, if one concludes that an enterprise is likely to cause frequent or severe damageeven if all due care expected from a specialist in such activities is exercised, suchenterprise is deemed to present a significant risk. Particularly, if a special risk liabilityis envisaged in any other law for enterprises presenting the similar risks, such anenterprise is also considered to present a significant risk.Special provisions governing liability for a specific risk are reserved.Even if such activity of an enterprise presenting a significant risk is permitted bythe legal order, those who are injured may claim to balance out the damage caused bythe activity of such enterprise at an appropriate price.”This clause was originally inspired from the article 50 of the Swiss Draft Project for theReform and Unification of Tort Law (Widmer-Wessner Draft Project) but ended up as the“Frankenstein’s monster” as it has not considered this Draft Project in its entirety. At the end, thisprovision has widened the liability of owners and operators of enterprises which presents a significantrisk. But to what extend?The highly debated answer to this question is of utmost importance to set the boundaries ofinsurance. In order to answer this question, one must firstly evaluate the criteria used for assessingthe risk and also the meaning of its vague final paragraph. Accordingly, this paper aims to understandthe rationale for this provision, to evaluate the legal debates regarding the conditions and scope ofliability under this provision and its implications on both tort law and insurance law. Furthermore,this paper intends to discuss the possible role of a general risk clause in our times of climate crisis.So, in a nutshell, the ultimate question of this paper is whether this provision is the “Frankenstein’smonster” or a gateway for climate liability?