Yaman Akdeniz

Yaman Akdeniz is a professor of Law at the Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law and the Pro Rector for the Istanbul Bilgi University. He has served as an expert on human rights aspects of Internet law and policy for several international organizations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Office and the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. More recently, he was appointed to the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Rights of Internet Users as an 'elected independent expert' and to the Council of Europe’s Committee of experts on cross-border flow of Internet traffic and Internet freedom as an 'elected independent expert'. His list of published works include Internet Child Pornography and the Law: National and International Responses (London: Ashgate, 2008); and Racism on the Internet (Council of Europe Publishing, 2010) as well as a number of reports for international organizations on freedom of expression- and media pluralism- related issues.