معرفی
Rahmi Kopar is an Assistant Professor in the Private International Law Division at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazit University's Law Faculty in Türkiye. He teaches modules on International Investment Law, Energy Law, and Private International Law. He holds an LLM from the University of Vienna (2013) and a PhD from the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy (2019), focusing on international energy investment arbitration under Prof. Peter Cameron. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at CEPMLP (2021–2022) funded by TUBITAK.
His research focuses on energy law, investment arbitration, and the energy transition. He authored Stability and Legitimate Expectations in International Energy Investments (Hart Publishing, 2021) and co-edited International Investment Law and the Energy Transition (forthcoming 2025). He organizes the Durham Energy Disputes Conference with Prof. Volker Roeben and serves on the editorial board of Global Energy Law and Sustainability.
Professionally, he is a qualified lawyer (Istanbul Bar, 2011), arbitrator at the Energy Disputes Arbitration Center, and academic coordinator at the World Energy Council-Turkish National Committee. He advises on international commercial and investment disputes, with experience under ICSID, ICC, SIAC, LCIA, and ISTAC arbitration rules. He is fluent in English, Turkish, with intermediate German and Arabic.
