Bilkent University Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the upcoming Comparative Tort Law Conference, marking the centenary of the Turkish Code of Obligations.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
While centennial discussions often center primarily on the Civil Code, the Swiss heritage is equally fundamental to the Turkish Code of Obligations and Turkish Tort Law. To address this interconnected legal legacy, our conference specifically focuses on comparative tort law. This framework allows us to analyze how the shared Swiss-Turkish foundations of liability have evolved over the last century.
The conference positions the Swiss-Turkish experience within a broader comparative context. Several of the jurisdictions represented in the programme — including the UK, Greece, Italy, Norway, France, Austria, Poland, Croatia and North Macedonia — offer particularly valuable perspectives on the reception and adaptation of foreign legal models. Beyond the Swiss-Turkish relationship, the conference therefore explores a broader question: how tort law develops in legal systems shaped by reception, legal transplants and hybridity, and where such systems converge with or diverge from the models that influenced them.
Date: 16 – 17 October 2026
Time: 09:00 – 18:00 on 16 October / 09:30 – 13:00 on 17 October
Venue: Conference Hall EE-01, Bilkent University, Ankara
The conference will be held in English.
Students who attend four or more sessions will be eligible to receive a certificate of participation.
Please note that registration is required for all participants.
To attend the conference, please complete the registration form: [Form Link] (https://forms.gle/pbFx95659jirzYRb6)
The event announcement and registration form are also available on the Faculty of Law [website.]
(https://hukuk.bilkent.edu.tr/comparative-tort-law-conference-16-17-october-2026-2/)
All interested participants are welcome.