EM
Ebru Metin
Legal Design
Founder
Biography
Dr. Ebru Metin is a legal design expert and researcher at Tallinn University of Technology. Her interdisciplinary work sits at the intersection of legal design, regulatory complexity and corporate sustainability. Her doctoral thesis, "From Complexity to Clarity: Legal Design in Corporate Sustainability Governance", examines how legal design can help organisations navigate regulatory complexity and translate sustainability requirements into more understandable and actionable governance practices. She graduated from King's College London (LLM) as a Jean Monnet Scholar in 2014, Istanbul Bilgi University (LLM) in 2013 and Bilkent University (LLB) in 2009.
She is the Chair of the European Legal Design Action (ELDA – COST Action CA25133), a four-year COST Action and pan-European interdisciplinary research network that brings together researchers, legal and regulatory experts, designers, technologists, policymakers, businesses, and public institutions to advance legal design and develop more understandable, actionable, and effective laws, regulations, and contracts.
Ebru was also the founder of the award-winning social enterprise Legal Design Turkey, through which she has led legal information design projects with international organisations including UNDP Turkey and UN Women.
Her work and leadership have received international recognition from organisations including the UNDP Social Innovation Support Programme, the British Council, Euclid Network, the International Legal Technology Association, the U.S. Department of State/Vital Voices and Estonian Research Council. She has been an ambassador of European Legal Technology Association since 2020.
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