Electricity Market Law 

The objective of this course is to understand legal framework of regulations related to electricity industry. Beside, transformation of electricity regulation via deregulation process, systematic of existing regulations, functioning dynamics of electricity markets, and interrelation with legal concepts and institutions is also covered.
At the end of the semester, students will be expected to have a theoretical perspective on the relationship of law and electricity industry in general and status, effects and transformation of norms and legal institutions within process of industry. Students will also be able to benefit from theoretical and conceptual frameworks besides knowledge about implementation of regulations and knowledge on practical problems during practice in energy law.
The syllabus of course  will cover following issues; concept of electricity, electricity industry, deregulation process, legal economic and technical concepts subject to electricity regulation, development of electricity industry and its transformation via deregulation process, renewable energy sources,  legal regime of those sources within regulations and implementation process in Turkish law, consumer regime in Turkish electricity market, administrative sanctions, and  lastly application of competition rules to electricity industry.