Saadet Yüksel
Saadet Yüksel is a Turkish judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Education
Yüksel entered the faculty of Law of the Istanbul University in September 2000, where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 2004 and a Master of European Laws in 2006. Yüksel is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association and worked in Turkey from 2005 onwards as a lawyer, including on human rights issues. In 2011, Yüksel obtained an additional Master of Laws from the Harvard Law School. She then returned to Turkey where she obtained a Ph.D at the Istanbul University in 2012.Professional career
Following she worked as a lecturer at Istanbul University, where she became associate professor of constitutional law in 2016. In 2017 she took over a chair for constitutional law. During her career she has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard, the Koç University and the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.In April 2019, Yüksel was elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe after having been put forward as one of the three candidates by the Turkish Government, replacing Ayşe Işıl Karakaş. Her tenure as a judge of the ECtHR, which is expected to last until 2028 began in July 2019.