Mehmet Bilal Unver

University of Hertfordshire | UH · Hertfordshire Law Shool

The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into society raises critical questions about its impact on democracy. The development of AI governance frameworks presents a convenient and crucial ground to strengthen democracy, particularly through the lens of participatory and deliberative theories. From this viewpoint, this article see...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), while transforming legal practice, presents various ethical challenges concerning transparency, fairness and accountability. These challenges span the entire AI lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and usage, affecting the day-to-day operations of legal technologies. When using AI, lawyers are subject t...

Book Launch, and discussion on 'Digital Platforms, Competition Law and Regulation: Comparative Perspectives'. Discussions available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXn2mpfEBqo&t=2266s.

This open access book offers a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective on the unique competition law challenges presented by the converged digital markets. Following the digitalisation of even the most traditional bricks-and-mortar sectors of the economy, a well-functioning internal market can only be guaranteed by ensuring the competitivene...

‘: Fiduciary law aims to mitigate the inherent risk of ‘trust’, which helps restore interpersonal trust. It remains to be answered how trust should be governed in an AI-driven socio-technical system where technical and social factors are involved including interpersonal relationships and AI-human interactions. Taking interpersonal trust as the back...

In the field of healthcare, enhancing patient safety depends on several factors (e.g., regulation, technology, care quality, physical environment, human factors) that are interconnected. Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with an increasing realm of use, functions as a component of the overall healthcare system from a multi-agent systems viewpoint...

The European Union (EU) harmonization has an evolving and dynamic nature. Different theoretical approaches (e.g., regulatory competition, coevolution, reflexive harmonization) are often echoed to delve into the EU harmonization. This article, going through these theories, endeavors to explain the harmonization discourse in the EU with a focus on th...

‘Interoperability’ means the ability for two different and independent information and communication technology (ICT) systems to exchange information and use that information. Whether or to what extent ICT interoperability needs to be regulated vis-a-vis the new technological challenges, poses a compelling question for the law and policy makers. Gi...

One of the key factors for a thriving cloud computing market is the ‘interoperability’ between the relevant hardware and software that govern the cloud services. While a complete interoperability means different cloud users being able to exchange the management tools, server images and other software, this is infrequently realised because users are...

The Internet of Things (IoT) depicts a world of networked smart objects, including cars, home appliances and wearable devices, which all require 'interoperability' to be used with seamless communication and data exchange. Interoperability will not be successfully achieved unless IoT users are pre-empted from being locked into specific (eg proprieta...

Internet, since its beginning, changed the social and economic environment of our lives deeply, having replaced the traditional modes of communications, entertaintment and information exchange. This transformation brings to the fore a serious discussion on how to define and regulate Internet, so as not to harm its socio-economic benefits but to yie...

FMS (fixed-to-mobile substitution) has increasingly been echoed within the regulatory agenda of the global and domestic policy actors as the usage of mobile telephony has rapidly exceeded that of the fixed telephony in the last decade. In this line of thinking and upon the drastic changes in market figures, e.g., diminishing fixed subscriber number...

In Turkey, mobile number portability has been implemented since late 2008. The implementation has been accepted generally as a successful regulation. After the implementation of mobile number portability since November 2008, there is slightly decline in mobile penetration rate in Turkey which is attributed to effect of mobile number portability. In...

Turkey is a country with an immature broadband industry. No competitive networks are operative in the broadband market and high-speed access is underdeveloped. The country faces critical regulatory junctures that will have strategic importance for future network growth. Open access regimes such as those of the European countries generally refrain f...

Development of all-IP networks is a process which brings out new challenges and possible threats as well as new value chains, enhanced and quickly-integrated products, economies of scale, cost-efficient and flexible network management capabilities etc. While such improvements call for a more sophisticated and advanced interaction between network/se...

The usage of mobile telephony has rapidly exceeded that of the fixed telephony in the last decade, and this was echoed with the widespread recognition of fixed-to-mobile substitution (FMS). FMS, denoting changes in market and consumer behaviour, creates new challenges for policy makers. This study first elaborates the plausible fact of FMS in Turke...

Liberalisation process already seen in the telecommunications sector resulted in proliferation of number of access agreements whose examples were limited at the outset. Although access agreements have a character of private law agreement, government has regulatory and auditory powers over these agreements. In this article, access regulations in EU...

Convergence takes place in everyday life, having an influence as a reality rather than a myth along with the rapid pace of technological changes. At the centre of the convergence lies the digital transformation which is based on granular and intelligent technologies facilitating the electronic communications both at network and service level. This...

In parallel with telecommunications sector experiencing the liberalisation process and the process of convergence with broadcasting-information technology sectors, access and interconnection agreements, which were already typified with limited examples, gained far more importance than before. In this article, are respectively examined definition an...

Liberalisation of telecommunications sector witnesses many problems regarding access to networks that demonstrate natural monopoly characteristics as well as opening of markets to competition. Continuing of access problems in different forms in spite of convergence between sectors and arising alternative technologies, increases the importance of re...

In this study, the origin and main parameters of the Essential Facilities Doctrine are analysed through the case-law that developed out of the application of the EC Competition Rules. Besides putting forward the historical roots, the basic criteria and limitations that apply to the Doctrine are elaborated so as to clarify the legal and analytical f...