Dr. Mustafa Saldırım
Maltepe University Faculty of Law
Head of the Department of Civil Procedure and Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law
Coordinator of the “Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary Research Group” at Maltepe University Technology and Intellectual Property Law Application and Research Center
He is the Head of the Department of Civil Procedure and Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law at Maltepe University Faculty of Law, and teaches Civil Procedure Law and Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law courses at the undergraduate level, as well as a graduate course titled “Enforcement Law Cases” (2024-…). He is also a member of the board of directors of the Maltepe University Technology and Intellectual Property Law Application and Research Center and serves as the “Coordinator of the ‘Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary Research Group’ established within the Center.”
His previous positions were: Public Prosecutor (1995-2002), Investigating Judge responsible for prisoner education at the General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses of the Ministry of Justice (2002-2007), and 19th Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Cassation. He served as an Investigating Judge (2007-2014) and Deputy Secretary General of the Court of Cassation (2015-2024). He completed her master’s degree (1998) and doctorate (2004) in Civil Procedure, and Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law at Ankara University Faculty of Law. He completed one-year programs in “Arbitration” and “Commercial Law” at the Ankara University Faculty of Law Banking and Commercial Law Research Institute, and a one-year program in “European Union and International Relations” at the Ankara University European Communities Research and Application Center. He received mediation training at the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), studied mediation institutions, completed the “Mediation Training Program” in Türkeye, and passed the exams to become a qualified mediator. As part of the Project for Supporting the Individual Application System to the Constitutional Court, he conducted research for two months in 2017 at the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) in the section concerning the enforcement of ECHR judgments.
He served as the Secretary of the Court of Cassation Judicial Ethics Advisory Board between 2018 and 2024, and taught courses on “Professional Deontology in Law,” “Legal Ethics,” and “Law and Ethics” at Ankara University Faculty of Law, Hacettepe University Faculty of Law, Başkent University Faculty of Law, and TOBB-ETÜ Faculty of Law. Between 2018 and 2024, he conducted legal clinic studies in connection with his judicial ethics courses at Ankara University Faculty of Law. He has published 22 books and 33 articles in various fields of law, primarily civil procedure law, enforcement and bankruptcy law, contract law, inmates’ education, judicial ethics, transparency in the judiciary, and judicial reform; translated 9 books on human rights and judicial reform; and edited 8 books and journals.
He has led several United Nations and European Union projects on behalf of the Court of Cassation, implementing judicial reforms such as the İstanbul Declaration on Transparency in the Judiciary, the Court of Cassation Code of Conduct, the Court of Cassations’ Guide to Reasoning Judgement, and the AI-powered Court of Cassation Case Law Center.
He currently participates in domestic and international meetings on judicial ethics and the use of artificial intelligence in law, and conducts research and publishes books and articles in the fields of cryptocurrency, contract law, civil procedure law, and enforcement and bankruptcy law.
He is married with two children and speaks English.