Lawyers

Hakan A.  YAVUZ

Hakan A. YAVUZ

Bosca Law, Turkey

Work Department

Criminal Mattes, International Criminal Law and International Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters

Position

Av. Assoc. Prof. Hakan A. YAVUZ is a partner lawyer of BOSCA Law Office and also a lecturer at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law.

Career

He completed his Master’s Degree on the “The Crime of Fraud in the Turkish Criminal Code” and his PhD on “Probation in the Criminal Justice System”. He carried out his post-doctoral research studies at Leiden and Amsterdam Vrije Universities in the Netherlands between 2014-2018

He worked as the rapporteur judge of the Ministry of Justice General Directorate of International Law and Foreign Relations and General Directorate of Criminal Affairs between 2011-2014. Between 2014-2018, he served as a justice counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in The Hague and worked in the fields of international judicial assistance, extradition, transfer of convicts, transfer of criminal proceedings, transfer of criminal execution and international criminal law. Between 2019 and 2023, within the scope of his duty as a public prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, he worked in the sections on smuggling crimes, terrorism crimes, organised crimes, fraud and plunder crimes, bank embezzlement crimes, forestry crimes and trademark infringement crimes.

In addition to his books titled "Smuggling Crimes in Practice", "Alternative Methods to Prosecution in Criminal Procedure" and "Criminal Execution System and Probation", he has many articles published in national and international academic journals in Turkish and English languages.

Languages

Turkish, English, Dutch

Memberships

Ankara Bar Association (2023)

Ministry of Justice Criminal Law Scientific Commission

European Probation Confederation

European Society of Criminology

Education

Fairleigh Dickinson University  ELS Language Centre  (2012-2013) PhD in Public Law, Gazi Universty Law Faculty (2011) LL.M. in Public Law, Kırıkkale University Faculty of Law (2004) LL.B. - Ankara University Faculty of Law (2002)