Professor Dr. Vahit Bicak is a lawyer expert in both common and civil law. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Ankara University in Turkey in 1989. Received his PhD from the University of Nottingham Faculty of Law in Great Britain in 1996 with a thesis on the subject of admissibility of evidence improperly obtained by the police. He received the academic titles of “assistant professor” in 1999, “associate professor” in 2002 and “full professor” in 2008.

He is a lawyer, academician, lecturer, educator, trainer, writer, legal consultant, practitioner, mediator, arbitrator, attorney, specialized in many aspects of comparative, evidence, international and domestic criminal law with proven record of strong leadership, and fluent in Turkish and English.

He, an internationally known lawyer, had been a visiting scholar at many prestigious universities around the world such as the City University of New York and the Fordham Law School in the U.S.A., the University of Lyon III Faculty of Law in France, the Moribor University in Slovenia, the Police College of Hungary in Budapest, the Police College of Check Republic, in Prague.

He had taught in a number of Turkish universities including Bilkent University, Hacettepe University, Gazi University, Başkent University, Atılım University, HBV University and Police Academy.

He had worked as a member of Human Rights Consultative Committee within the scope of Prime Ministry of Turkey in between 2002-2004. He had been assigned as the President of Prime Ministry Human Rights Committe between 2003-2005. He served as one of the six members of Reform Monitoring Group (foreign minister and deputy premier, minister of justice, interior minister, secretariat general for the EU affairs, human rights chairman of the prime ministry, head of IHDK) around the same time.

He has experience of working at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France. He took part in European Council Police Ethics Committee of Experts in order to prepare a draft of European Council Police Ethics Agreement. He regularly gives seminars and runs training workshops all over the world and is a regular attendee and contributor to the ICC International Mediation Competition, Paris, France.

He has published numerous books and articles, both in English and Turkish, on human rights issues in Turkey and on the theoretical and practical aspects of evidence law, criminal procedure law and constitutional law.  He has also designed and managed more than a dozen of international projects.