Bachelor of Law is a prestigious, practice-oriented four-year undergraduate program that trains graduates to become fully licensed Turkish attorneys (Avukat), judges, public prosecutors, notaries, in-house corporate counsel, or legal consultants who master the entire Turkish legal system while simultaneously acquiring sufficient English-language legal proficiency to handle international contracts, cross-border disputes, arbitration, and global corporate transactions that dominate Turkey’s rapidly internationalizing economy.From the first year, students study all compulsory Turkish law curriculum required by the Council of Higher Education and the Turkish Bar Union: Constitutional Law, Civil Law (obligations, property, inheritance), Criminal Law (general and specific provisions), Administrative Law, Commercial Law (companies, negotiable instruments, transportation), Law of Civil and Criminal Procedure, Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, Labor and Social Security Law, International Private Law, and Public International Law, with 70 % of courses delivered in Turkish using original Turkish statutes, Supreme Court (Yargıtay) and Council of State (Danıştay) precedents, and Turkish doctrinal textbooks. The remaining 30 % of the curriculum is conducted entirely in English with original materials: Legal English and drafting of international contracts, Common Law fundamentals, EU Law and Turkey-EU relations, International Commercial Arbitration (ICC, UNCITRAL), Comparative Law, Anglo-American Contract and Tort Law, Cross-Border M&A, International Trade Law (WTO, Incoterms), and Capital Markets Law in English, enabling graduates to read and draft bilingual contracts and represent clients in English-language arbitrations (ISTAC, ICC, LCIA).Practical training is exceptionally strong: second-year students participate in mock trials and mediation simulations; third-year students complete mandatory internships in law firms, courthouses, and corporate legal departments; fourth-year clinical legal education includes real case files under attorney supervision and representation of low-income clients through university legal clinics. Many programs have partnerships with Istanbul’s largest law firms (Çakmak, Esin, Paksoy, White & Case Türkiye, Dentons, Baker McKenzie, Hergüner, Balcıoğlu) and regularly send top students for summer associateships.Graduates take the single nationwide Turkish Bar Exam (Avukatlık Stajı yazılı sınavı) with success rates consistently above national average and immediately enter the one-year mandatory legal internship (staj) that leads to full attorney licensing. Employment prospects are outstanding: most graduates are recruited before or during their internship by top-tier Turkish and international law firms in Istanbul, Ankara, and İzmir, corporate legal departments of holdings (Koç, Sabancı, Doğuş, Zorlu, Anadolu Grubu, Türk Telekom, Turkish Airlines, Tüpraş), banks, Big-4 legal advisory practices, or directly appointed as judge/prosecutor candidates through the rigorous ÖSYM/Adli Yargı examination.Salaries rank among the highest of all undergraduate degrees in Turkey: new associates at leading Istanbul law firms start significantly above engineering and medicine graduates, while partners at top firms and senior in-house counsel regularly reach multi-million-lira annual earnings. The profession enjoys the highest social prestige in Turkish society as guardians of justice andrights.Inn short, the Bachelor of Law (70 % Turkish – 30 % English) offers one of the most intellectually rigorous, financially rewarding, and socially respected careers in Turkey, combining complete mastery of the national legal system with genuine international capability and the lifelong privilege of defending rights, solving complex disputes, and shaping justice for individuals and the largest institutions every single day.
