Yagmur Hortoglu Grant

Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant joined the Department of Law in July 2021 as an Assistant Professor in Law. Her current research focuses primarily on arbitration law and private international law. She retains a keen interest in the interaction between Law and Psychology.
    Prior to joining Maynooth University, Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant was a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow at New York University, School of Law (USA), the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law. She has also been a Teaching/Research Assistant at Sorbonne Law School and Cergy-Pontoise University in France and taught private international law, introduction to civil law, family law, tort law and corporate law.   

     Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant holds a bachelor’s degree in Private Law and a master’s degree in Private International Law and International Business Law from Sorbonne Law School (France). She also holds a Master of Science in Applied Positive Psychology from East London University (UK). For her Ph.D. thesis (summa cum laude) entitled “Fraud and Arbitration”, which she prepared under the co-supervision of Professor Mathias Audit (Sorbonne University) and Professor Franco Ferrari (New York University) at Sorbonne Law School, Yağmur worked on various fraudulent acts that can occur in arbitration and the ways to fight against these practices that she qualified as "arbitral fraud". In 2008, Yağmur was awarded merit-based excellence scholarship granted by the French Government. She has also been a laureate of scholarships from the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in 2017 and then the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg in 2018. In 2020, she was selected to participate to the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law. Within this framework, she published a paper on the law governing the issue of legal privilege in commercial arbitration. 

     At Maynooth University, Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant teaches Contract Law (LW152), Private International Law (LW604X) and Arbitration Law (LW6002). She is also the Director of L.L.M. in International Business Law and L.L.B. programmes. Outside Maynooth, Yağmur holds a Chair at the Academic Council of R.E.A.L. (Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers) based in New York. Since 2017, Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant has been acting as a legal counsel before the European Court of Human Rights for Turkish applicants. Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant is a media contributor on Turkish television news and radio programs to share opinions on topical legal subjects. 

Yağmur is fluent in English, French and Turkish. She welcomes potential research students, collaborations, and media enquiries related to any of her research areas.