Beril Boz

Beril Boz is a DPhil (PhD) in law candidate at the Faculty of Law. Her research interests include subjects at the intersection of law/governance and technology. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis which examines different aspects of public-private dichotomy under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, considering the transforming characteristics of the online realm. She investigates the legitimacy of existing lawfulness conditions for data processing in consideration with public-private divide in legal systems and frameworks (namely the GDPR). Her DPhil supervisors are Prof. Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Prof. Rebecca Williams. 

Her teaching interests and experience include data protection and privacy law, contracts, jurisprudence and philosophy of human rights. She taught data protection and privacy law, jurisprudence and philosophy of human rights at several colleges of the University of Oxford (including St. Anne's, St. Catz, Lincoln, and Regent's Park College). She is currently teaching Law and Technology course at Bahcesehir University, Turkey to undergraduate law students. 

She also worked on the research project 'Enabling Trust, Security and Privacy for Policy Innovation in Tackling Modern Slavery' for the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, in cooperation with the Alan Turing Institute and Open Data Institute, researched the barriers to data sharing in the context of modern slavery policy interventions. ​

Beril has been the convenor of the Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group since 2019, and was the Blog Manager of the Cambridge International Law Journal between 2018- 2020. 

Before coming to Oxford, she completed an LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Fulbright scholar, following which she practiced law (as a litigator and consultant), with a particular focus on data protection law, content regulations and contracts.  

Education

CPGS in Legal Studies, University of Cambridge 

Master in Laws (LL.M.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA - Fulbright Scholar

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Bahcesehir University, Istanbul / Turkey 

Professional Qualifications

New York State Bar 

Istanbul Bar