Introduction to Turkish Business Law (Cases & Materials)

In the years of 2000-2004, I was teaching "Business Law" courses in the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics (CASE) of Koç University in Istanbul. Traditionally undergraduate Business (Commercial) Law courses in Turkey contain three subjects, i.e. the laws and regulations applicable for commercial enterprises, company law and the law of negotiable instruments. There are quite a few good nutshells for these subjects suitable for non-law students, e.g. students of Economics, Engineering and Business Management.The contents/syllabus of my Business Law courses for the CASE was different from those of the nutshell literature. I thought, namely that, the students of business management and economics will need to know not only the above mentioned three subjects but must learn even if in very general terms what the contracts, the anti-trust law, labour law, dispute resolution, etc. mean for a business.As a result of this approach, instead of suggesting any textbooks, I made available for the students a file of course materials at the university library. The course materials contained among others extracts from legislation, summary of court cases etc. in addition to what I would call "bits and pieces" of what I wrote for foreign clients mostly in the course of my years as a junior attorney of law in the form of informative memoranda or executive summaries. The students were required to use those materials for discussing a hypothetical which they would receive in the form of handouts for each lesson.For some ten years to follow I kept updating and using all or parts of the same course materials, with necessary additions or reductions in the contents, for other student groups as well, including Erasmus students from EU member states and the graduate students of the Washington College of Law of the American University, who used to come over to Yeditepe University each year between 2009 and 2015 for a summer course on Turkish law.Due to the change of my student group...