Osman Can

Osman Can is a Law Professor and Reporting Judge at the Turkish Constitutional Court.^[1] He holds a PhD from the University of Cologne, Germany.

In 2009 Can received a call from TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara. Previously, he had served as an Assistant Lecturer for constitutional law at the University of Erzincan (2000 to 2002). Since 2002, he also worked as a Reporting Judge at the Turkish Constitutional Court dealing with cases concerning prohibitions on political parties, fundamental rights and constitutional amendments. In 2002, he founded the German-Turkish Forum of Public Law (Deutsch-Türkisches Staatsrechtlerforum) and has subsequently acted as Head of the Turkish section.

In 2010, he was selected as Jurist of the Year in Turkey.^[2]

Osman Can's publications include:

• The Turkish Constitutional Court as a Defender of the Raison d'Etat, in Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity, eds. Rainer Grote and Tilmann Röder (OUP 2011)
• Der Schutz staatlicher Ehre und religiöser Gefühle und die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz (with Otto Depenheuer and Ilyas Dogan, 2008)
• Auf dem Weg zu gemeinsamen europäischen Grundrechtsstandards (with Otto Depenheuer and Ilyas Dogan, 2007)
• Die Schranken der Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit nach türkischem Verfassungsrecht (Shaker Verlag, 2001)

References

1. ^ "Taboo-breaking jurist Osman Can: Judiciary cannot be supra political". Today's Zaman. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-198071-8-taboo-breaking-jurist-osman-can-judiciary-cannot-be-supra-political.html. Retrieved 2 October 2010. 
2. ^ "Democrat Judiciary head Osman Can selected as Jurist of the Year". Today's Zaman. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-207691-100-democrat-judiciary-head-osman-can-selected-as-jurist-of-the-year.html. Retrieved 2 October 2010. 

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