Professor Özlem Gürses

Özlem Gürses is Professor of Commercial Law. Prior to joining King’s College London, Professor Gürses taught at the Norwich and Southampton Law Schools. 

Following her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Istanbul, Professor Gürses studied an LLM in Maritime Law (graduated with distinction) and PhD in Law at the University of Southampton.

Professor Gürses is the sole author of The Law of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance (Informa, 2019), Marine Insurance Law (Routledge, 2023, 3rd ed) and Reinsuring Clauses (Informa, 2010). She also updated Insurance of Commercial Risks (Sweet and Maxwell, 2016) in its preparation for the fifth edition.

She regularly presents her research at home and abroad. She sits in the Presidential Council of International Insurance Law Association/Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA), chairs the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA, and is a Committee member of the British Insurance Law Association.

Professor Gürses teaches insurance and marine insurance law on several different short courses as a visiting lecturer in Germany, Italy, Singapore and China.

Research interests

Professor Gürses's research is focused on insurance, marine insurance and reinsurance law.

The insurance law courses she teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at King’s cover a broad range of insurance and reinsurance law topics. Currently she supervises four different PhD projects on various insurance and reinsurance related subjects.

Teaching 

Undergraduate: Insurance Law

Postgraduate: Insurance Law