Professor Özlem Gürses

Overview

Professor Özlem Gürses is Professor of Commercial Law at the King’s College London where she teaches insurance and reinsurance law. Prior to joining King’s College London, Professor Gurses taught commercial law at the Norwich and Southampton Law Schools.

Professor Gürses has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Istanbul. She also studied LLM in Maritime Law and PhD in Reinsurance Law at the University of Southampton.

She is the sole author of Marine Insurance Law (Routledge, 2023, 3rd ed),The Law of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance (Informa, 2019), and Reinsuring Clauses (Informa, 2010). She has recently edited  Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (forthcoming, 2024). Professor Gürses frequently presents her research at national and international conferences.

Professor Gürses sits in the Presidential Council of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA), and the British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Committee. She chairs the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA.