Bengi Baydan completed her high school education at TED Kdz. Ereğli College. Then she

 earned a scholarship to Yeditepe University Law Faculty and began her legal education.

During her undergraduate studies, she developed an interest in intellectual property and

digitalization, taking elective courses in this field and completing summer internships.

 

After completing her undergraduate studies at Yeditepe University, she pursued her

master's degree at Brunel University London. During her master's program, she conducted

research at the intersection of Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law,

publishing academic papers. She was also elected as the representative for master's

students and served on the university's councils and meetings on behalf of the Law Faculty

master's students. Additionally, she mentored foreign students as a Peer Leader. Throughout

her educational journey, she participated in numerous Model United Nations and Moot

Courts events, representing her university in various countries such as Spain, France, and

Greece.

 

For her master's thesis in 2019, she chose the topic "Copyright Ownership of Artificial

Intelligence-generated Works in Anglo-Saxon Law." By blending foreign sources with legal

reasoning, she graduated with Honors. Following her graduation, she collaborated with

Dr. Hayleigh Bosher, a lecturer at Brunel University London, to prepare and submit a paper

on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law to the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO).

 

Upon returning to Turkey, she delivered speeches and conducted training sessions on

artificial intelligence at various conferences and seminars. She also taught a course on

Artificial Intelligence and Law as part of the Personal Data Protection Law curriculum in the

Information Technology Law Master's Program at Istanbul Aydın University. For a semester,

she assumed full responsibility for this course, including curriculum design and exam

preparation.

 

Bengi Baydan has contributed articles and academic papers on artificial intelligence and

law to various journals and publications, including the Istanbul and Adana Bar Association

Journals. She presented a joint paper titled "Deepfake in Copyright Law Context"

at the International Conference on Law in the Digital Age, which was subsequently published

in book form alongside articles by other academics at the conference.

 

Currently, Bengi Baydan continues her legal practice in the field of information technology

law while actively engaging in academic research and publishing in the field of

artificial intelligence.