Prof. Dr. Arzu Oğuz

Born in Merzifon on 03.08.1963, Prof. Dr. Arzu Oğuz graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1986 after completing his primary and secondary education in Çankırı and high school education in Ankara Anıttepe High School. Professor Dr. Arzu Oğuz completed his master's in Private Law at Ankara University Graduate School of Social Sciences between 1987-1989.

Having started his academic career at Faculty of Law, Ankara University in 1988, Oğuz returned from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, where she pursued a a doctorate with a scholarship.

Prof. Dr. Arzu Oğuz worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Roman Law of Ankara University’ Faculty of Law, where she was appointed as a Lecturer on 20.04.1998, and as an Assistant Professor on 20.12.1999, and as an Associate Professor on 12.03.2002. She was appointed as an Associate Professor at the Chair of Comparative Law, where she served as a Full Professor and the Head between 2005-2019. Since 2019 onwards she the Head of the Chair of Intellectual Property Law.

Prof. Dr. Arzu Oğuz has been teaching in law faculties of Public and Foundation Universities, throughout Turkey as part of undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition, Prof. Dr. Oğuz has been in numerous countries such as United States, Germany, Austria and United Kingdom to conduct research and deliver conferences.

Prof. Dr. Arzu Oğuz is a member of the Turkish-German Lawyers Association (Türkisch-Deutsch Juristenvereinigung) and served as the President of the Association of Higher Education in Germany (AYÖG) between 2007 and 2011.

Prof. Dr. Arzu Oğuz served as Academic Advisor to the Patent and Trademark Attorneys Sector Assembly operating under the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) between 2011 and 2017. Since 2019, she joins the activities of the Assembly at the capacity of the representative of FISAUM.

Additionally Prof. Dr. Oğuz also served as a member of the Intellectual Property Academy, established by the Turkish Trademark and Patent Office between 2017 and 2020.

Having served as numerous administrative positions such as, a member of the Faculty Board of Ankara University, the Erasmus Coordinator, a Board Member of Student Houses, Prof. Oğuz held the position of Dean of the Ankara University Faculty of Law between 31.12.2012-31.12.2015. Oğuz still serves as the Director of the Intellectual and Industrial Rights Research and Application Center of Ankara University, a position she has held since 2000.

Prof. Dr. Arzu Oğuz is currently registered in the Mediator Registry of Mediators at the Ministry of Justice and has been awarded a certificate by attending the "International Mediation" course organized by the "Association for International Arbitration" in Brussels in August 2013. Oğuz, who is also registered in the Vienna Arbitration Center, is a "trusted lawyer" of the Austrian Trade Center in Ankara and was awarded the "Science and Art Order" by the Austrian State on 11 December 2015.

Prof. Dr. Oğuz provides legal counselling in the field of economic law at Oğuz Hukuk Danışmanlık Ltd Şti, which she is a founding partner. Her areas of expertise concentrates on commercial contracts law, health law, liability law, energy law, intellectual property rights, commercial arbitration, commercial mediation.