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Nursena Çetingül (Cetingul)
Nursena Çetingül began her undergraduate education at the Faculty of Pharmacy and continued her studies by transferring to the Faculty of Law. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in 2021. She then completed her legal internship, obtained her license to practice law, and registered with the bar association. While in her final year of law school, she wrote an article titled “Deliberations On The Legal Status Of Artificial Intelligence In Terms Of Criminal Liability,” which was published in a peer-reviewed journal. The article was downloaded over five thousand times and received interdisciplinary citations. In 2022, she began her master’s degree at the Department of Kalām at the Institute of Social Sciences at Marmara University, which she completed in 2025 by defending her thesis titled “Kalāmic and Legal Analysis of Posthumanism Arguments Based on Artificial Intelligence.” In the same year, she started her doctoral studies in Public Law at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences. Her research article titled “Benjamin Libet’s ‘Free Will Experiment’, Scientific Criticisms and Kalāmic Perspective,” written during her master’s program, was published in one of the most important peer-reviewed journals in the field in the country and has been downloaded over six thousand times at Dergipark.
In May 2024, her paper titled “Neurolaw in the Age of AI: A Critical Reading from the Perspective of Kalām” was accepted for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Religion organized by the University of Warsaw in Poland. In September 2024, at the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Ethics held in Portugal, she presented her paper titled “Can Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) be Used for Criminalization? Monitoring the Future in the Age of AI,” which discussed the legal aspects of brain-computer interfaces. In September 2024, at an interdisciplinary workshop organized by the Leverhulme Centre for Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, she presented her paper titled “Neurolaw and AI: A Kalamic View on Brain-Computer Interfaces and Ethics,” which addressed the relationship between neurolaw and Kalam. In January 2025, she contributed a chapter titled “A Look at the Legal Status of Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Islamic Legal Philosophy (Makāsıdü’ş-Şerîa)” to the book Artificial Intelligence and Islam published by Timaş Akademi. Since August 2024, she has been a member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Istanbul Bar Association’s Information Technology Commission and has been serving as editor of the commission’s academic blog since October 2025. In addition, Çetingül has published articles on Artificial Intelligence Law and Neurolaw in the Diyanet Monthly Magazine (an official publication of the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey). She has numerous academic translations and is very interested in interdisciplinary studies.
Her main areas of interest are artificial intelligence and criminal law, philosophy of law, human rights, ethics, neuroscience, Islamic legal philosophy, and Kalam.