Chair of Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee, International Bar Association, TR

Mrs. Derya Durlu Gürzumar is an attorney-at-law registered to the Istanbul Bar Association.

She holds LLB and LLM degrees from Bilkent University Faculty of Law, in Ankara, Turkey, and a diploma in advanced studies in international arbitration, awarded by the University of Lucerne and University of Neuchâtel. Mrs. Durlu Gürzumar is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Neuchâtel, in Switzerland.

She is the current chair of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee, which works primarily on alternative legal practice models and the future of the legal profession. Mrs. Durlu Gürzumar’s practice and research interests have focused on internet/IT law, AI/LegalTech, dispute resolution/arbitration, and white-collar irregularities. She is Young ITA’s Thought Leadership Vice-Chair and the Editor-in-Chief of the Vindobona Journal, endorsed by the Moot Alumni Association.

She has been publishing and speaking on matters related to AI and international commercial arbitration, alternative business structures, and the impact of technology on the legal profession.