Deniz Gedik received her BA and LLM from Galatasaray University, Istanbul and MA from Panteion University, Athens. She started her MPhil/PhD studies at London School of Economics and Political Science, London, before she was admitted to the Law and Society Institute, Humboldt University Berlin as a visiting fellow. Both as a lawyer registered to the Istanbul Bar Association since 2012, and a scholar, her work stands at the intersection point of social movements and law. Her PhD is on the right to resist in comparative constitutional law and her research at Humboldt University Berlin focuses on the right to resist in post-Soviet constitutionalism.