Işıl Tekdoğan is a PhD candidate at Ankara University Graduate School of Social Sciences (Turkey) since 2016. After graduating from Ankara University Law Faculty, she obtained her LL.M degree from the same university with a thesis titled “The Law Applicable to Non-marital Cohabitation Forms”. Since 2013, she works as a research assistant at Ankara University Law Faculty in the Department of Private International Law. The working title of her PhD thesis is “The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on Turkish International Procedural Law”.