Kadriye Bakirci is a Professor of Comparative Employment/Labour and Social Security Law, a certified lawyer, a member of the Istanbul Bar Association, and a certified tutor for training of trainers for the Council of Europe Programme on Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals. She is a Fulbright, British Council, and Swedish Institute Scholar and a member of Kellogg College Oxford University (https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/kadriye-bakirci/).

She received her BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Istanbul University Faculty of Law and has been a visiting academic at several institutions including the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London University), the London School of Economics and Political Science Law Department, Cambridge University Faculty of Law, Stockholm University Faculty of Law, Columbia University Faculty of Law, Lund University Faculty of Economics and Management Business Law Department, the International Labour Organisation (Geneva) and Oxford University Law Faculty.

She specialises in comparative employment/labour and social security law, business, and human rights, human rights of women, children, disabled, migrants, and minorities, the impact of new technologies (such as digitalisation) on labour law, the future of work, equality and non-discrimination, violence, and health and safety in the world of work, work-related whistleblowing, human trafficking, human smuggling, international migration, forced migration, forced labour, exploitation of domestic workers, women’s unpaid work, precarious work, modern forms of slavery and access to justice (For a full list of her publications see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ORS3-xwAAAAJ&hl=tr; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kadriye-Bakirci).