Nezihe Tekman

Nezihe has received her legal education studying common law in North Cyprus and graduated with high honours in 2009. She has completed her LLM degree in Commercial Law at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her master thesis; “Who are the consumers within the scope of European Consumer Law?” was supervised by Professor Paula Giliker. She has received a European Union scholarship during her master’s degree and after the successful completion of her LLM Degree, she has returned to Cyprus and started teaching in Higher Education ever since 2010. 

In the same year, she has started practising law and she has been admitted to the Cyprus Turkish Bar Association in 2011 and has been an active member of the Nicosia Bar Association since practising law. 

She has started her PhD Degree at the University of Hull, United Kingdom in 2013 specialising in the effective protection of vulnerable consumer focusing on two main consumer law directives: Unfair Contract Terms Directive and Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. From the same university, she also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Research Training. 

In 2017, she started working in Near East University in Cyprus as a lecturer and researcher and she is now the LLB Coordinator for the International Law Department. She is also visiting lecturer in different universities in Cyprus and she teaches, Consumer Law, Contract Law, Competition Law and Commercial Law. 

In 2023, she has been appointed as a lawyer for the Consumer Arbitration Board in Cyprus. 

She is currently working on alternative redress methods for consumers, researching consumer vulnerability and artificial intelligence in effective consumer protection.