Aziz Ozturk

Aziz Ozturk is a final-year PhD candidate in Corporate Law at the Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, where he serves as an undergraduate law tutor for the Business Entities Law course. He founded and co-convenes the Edinburgh Commercial Law Reading Group and co-convened the 2022 Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference, demonstrating active academic engagement.

His educational background includes:

• LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary University of London (2018)
• Bachelor of Laws from Istanbul University (2014)

His research centers on corporate takeovers, examining anti-takeover defenses through comparative analysis of Turkish, German, and Swiss law. This work intersects corporate governance, capital markets regulation, and cross-border mergers, emphasizing practical applications in evolving financial ecosystems. His methodology bridges doctrinal legal analysis with real-world corporate control dynamics.

He received the Saltire Early Career Fellowship Award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021, which facilitated his research as a Visiting PhD Scholar at the University of Hamburg's Institute of Law & Finance (January–July 2022).

Aziz tutors undergraduate students in Business Entities Law but has no documented PhD/Master's advisees. The Saltire Fellowship provided dedicated research funding during his Hamburg residency, though no additional grants are referenced in the source material.