Dr. Ayşe Didem SEZGİN

Ayşe Didem studied Law in Istanbul University between 2009-2013. She was admitted to the Bar in Istanbul while doing an LLM in Public Law in Istanbul University in 2015. She applied for the Turkish Ministry of National Education’s scholarship to continue her postgraduate studies in international law. She studied Transnational law when she started an LLM programme at King’s College London in 2016. It was during this time in the end of 2016 when she also became interested in Food law and politics at the King’s Transnational Law Institute that she decided to pursue a PhD on the matter of food and agriculture. She finished her LLM with distinction with a dissertation titled “Natural Resource Governance and the Implications of REDD+ Mechanisms in Africa: A TWAIL Perspective”. She became more interested in International environmental law during her first years of PhD thanks to her supervisor. Later during the times of pandemic, she co-founded the Innovative approaches to Environmental law research group in collaboration with colleagues from University of New South Wales Law School. She co-authored the paper titled “Reimagining International Law’s Environment: An Ecological Critique of International Food Law and International Disaster Law” and published in Melbourne Journal of International Law in 2022. Her current research areas of focus are ecology and law, critical approaches to international environmental law and agriculture.