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Hakan Sahin

Dr Hakan Sahin

Senior Lecturer

Nottingham Law School

Staff Group(s)
Nottingham Law School staff

Role

Dr Hakan Sahin is a Senior Lecturer (teaching & research) in Law specialising in International Energy Investment Law at Nottingham Law School, NTU.

As a research-active member of academic staff within NLS, he designs and develops modules (including International Energy Investment Law, Regulation of Cryptoassets and Blockchain) and leads and teaches the following modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels: International Trade Law (LLB), International Commercial Transactions, International Dispute Resolution, International Energy Investment Law, Regulation of Cryptoassets and Blockchain (LLM).

Hakan is a research ethics reviewer for the Schools of Business, Law, and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (BLSS REC). As a research ethics reviewer, he works closely with the Research Ethics Committee and its administrative team to review and provide feedback on research ethics applications made by multi-disciplinary colleagues.

He is well-connected in his field and has harnessed his network to organise conferences and events to raise the profile of the Law School and help attract new streams of revenue. For this purpose, as a member of the Centre for Business and Insolvency Law within NLS, he organises the Annual Conference on the Intersection of Corporate Law and Technology on behalf of the research centre. In this capacity, he chairs the panels of the conference, sourcing, engaging, and briefing academics and practitioners from all over the world.

Hakan also works closely with the NLS Research Steering Group and supports senior colleagues by contributing to research strategy development discussions for the REF 2027/28.

Career overview

Hakan undertook his LLM Postgraduate Programme in ‘International and European Business Law’ at Anglia Ruskin University and subsequently completed his PhD with the same university. Before joining the NTU, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the department of Private International Law at Maltepe University, Istanbul, Türkiye.

Research areas

Hakan’s research interests are mainly, International Trade Law, International Commercial Law, Contract Law, International Investment Law and Arbitration and Law & Technology, in particular Regulation of Crypto Assets and Blockchain.

He supervises both LLM and PhD students’ independent research projects.

Funded Research Projects

As a research-active member of the academic staff, Dr Sahin is the grant holder of internally and externally funded research projects. He is the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of the following funded research projects:

  • AHRC’s Research Networking Grant AH/Y006674/1 (2024)(Co-I)
  • BTCTurk Cryptocurrency Exchange Company Istanbul, Turkey: (P-I)
  • Nottingham Law School Strategic Research Fund (P-I) (Internal small grant)
  • Vice Chancellor’s Future Research Leadership (Research and Networking small grant)
  • Professor Rebecca Parry (P-I) & Dr Hakan Sahin (Co-I): Mapping Grey Areas in International Legal Approaches to the Failure of Crypto Firms (2024) (AHRC’s Research Networking Grant AH/Y006674/1)
  • Dr Hakan Sahin,( P-I) & Professor Rebecca Parry(Co-I), Dr Alex Kastrinou (Co-I): Regulation of Crypto-assets and AI as a corporate crime prevention method. A comparative study between the regulatory approaches of the UK and Turkey. (November 2021- November 2023: completed) (BTCTurk Cryptocurrency Exchange Company Istanbul, Turkey)

His  ORCID ID is : 0000-0003-0908-4813

External activity

Hakan's memberships are as follows:

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
  • Member of the Energy Disputes Arbitration Centre (EDAC), Ankara, Türkiye.
  • Society of Legal Scholars
  • Socio-Legal Studies Association

Sponsors and collaborators

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • INSOL International
  • Istanbul Bar Association

Publications

Authored Book

Hakan Sahin, ‘Host Government Agreements and the Law in the Energy Sector: The Case of Azerbaijan and Turkey’. (Routledge, 2019).

Chapter in Book

Hakan Sahin, ‘Production Sharing Agreements in the Caucasus and Central Asia: A Contextual Study of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan’ Chapter 24, in Anna Aseeva and Jedrej Gorski (eds) The Law and Policy of New Euroasian Regionalisation: Economic Integration, Trade, and Investment in the Post-Soviet and Greater Euroasia Space (Brill 2021) 493-508

Journal Article

Rebecca Parry & Hakan Sahin, Cryptocurrencies, Expectation Gaps and Consumer Protection: The Case of Türkiye, Law, Innovation and Technology Vol.1(4) (2024) 1-32

Ilias Bantekas & Hakan Sahin, Non-Profit Entities as Foreign Investors? The Case of International Sport Governing Bodies, Stanford Journal of International Law, Vol.60(2) (2024) 70-103

Hakan Sahin, Understanding Re-nationalisation through the theory of Obsolescing Bargain and Political Institutions: The Case of Argentina, Nottingham Law Journal Vol.32(1) (2023)

Hakan Sahin, ‘Production Sharing Agreements in the Caucasus and Central Asia: A Contextual Study of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan’, Transnational Dispute Management, (2019) (TDM, ISSN 1875-4120)

Hakan Sahin, ‘Political Risk in Energy Related Investment Disputes’, World Arbitration & Mediation ReviewVol. 11:3 (2017) 353-381

Hakan Sahin, ‘Project Finance Lenders, Insurers and Credit Rating Agencies: Do They Play an Active Role in Inclusion of Stabilisation Clauses in Investment Contracts?’, Bahcesehir University Law Review, Vol.127-128 (2015) 131-168.

Hakan Sahin, ‘Political Structure and Foreign Direct Investment Law in Azerbaijan and Turkey, Maltepe University Law Review, Vol.1(2014) 83-109

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