Av. Dr. Alihan Sağır
Av. Dr. Alihan Sağır graduated from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University Faculty of Law in 2014. During his undergraduate studies, he completed the International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration course at the London School of Economics in 2013. Following graduation, he completed a one-year certificate programme in Construction Contracts Law at Ankara University’s Research Institute of Banking and Commercial Law.
In 2017, he obtained his LL.M. in Private Law from Ankara University Graduate School of Social Sciences with a thesis on the contractor’s failure to perform its obligations under contracts for work and services (“Eser Sözleşmesinde Yüklenicinin Borcunu İfa Etmemesi”).
In 2023, he obtained his Ph.D. in Private Law from Akdeniz University Institute of Social Sciences with a doctoral dissertation on the platform contract in crowdfunding systems and its legal consequences (“Kitle Fonlaması Sisteminde Platform Sözleşmesi ve Hukukî Sonuçları”).
He is registered with the Antalya Bar Association and, since 2020, with the Official Register of Mediators of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Türkiye. He practises in commercial and corporate law, startup and venture finance law, information technology and artificial intelligence law, and contract law, and speaks fluent English.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3267-3838
Publications
- The Triangular Contractual Structure and Information-Form Liability in Equity- and Debt-Based Crowdfunding Under Turkish Law (working paper, 2026)
- Software Rights, Cross-Border Data Transfers and EU AI Act Obligations for AI and SaaS Ventures in Türkiye (working paper, 2026)
- “Borçlunun Bildiği Başlangıçtaki İmkânsızlığa Bağlanan Butlan Yaptırımının Culpa in Contrahendo ile Daraltılması”, Akdeniz University Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2018, pp. 225–242 (in Turkish)
- “Kitle Fonlaması Sisteminde Platform Sözleşmesi ve Hukukî Sonuçları” (Ph.D. dissertation, Akdeniz University, 2023; in Turkish)
- “Eser Sözleşmesinde Yüklenicinin Borcunu İfa Etmemesi” (LL.M. thesis, Ankara University, 2017; in Turkish)