This book grew out of the observations of a public law scholar whose work in recent years has focused on the interaction between artificial intelligence and law. Artificial intelligence systems are becoming embedded in every area that law touches, from court registries to hospital corridors and from bank branches to university classrooms, while AI regulations follow one another in quick succession at both the international and national levels. These developments call for a textbook that explains the foundations of this transformation to law students in a comprehensive and systematic manner. The aim of this work is to provide a core text that will move artificial intelligence law from a subject of curiosity to one of the standard courses in legal education. The book is also an attempt at bearing witness: it seeks to capture a rapidly evolving phenomenon within as broad a framework as possible at a transformative moment in history, and to record the explorations of the field’s formative phase as a key to understanding its future development. After all, the debates that take place when a field of law is born largely determine which questions will remain on the agenda in the years to come.

The book has been designed with three objectives in mind. The first is to give readers a foundation in this dynamic field that will not quickly become outdated. Artificial intelligence technology is changing rapidly; however, principles such as human dignity, transparency, accountability, non-discrimination and legality, together with the risk-based regulatory approach, are enduring. For this reason, the book places its emphasis on principles and fundamental concepts, while dates, statute numbers and institution names are treated as examples that give these concrete form and are largely compiled in tables that can be updated. The second objective is to develop a comparative perspective. Turkish jurists should understand artificial intelligence law not merely as a reflection of EU legislation but as part of a multi-centred regulatory world extending from the United States to Japan and from South Korea to Vietnam. The third objective is to offer the perspective of Turkish law and the Turkic world. The book advances the thesis that Türkiye can build an artificial intelligence law grounded in its own constitutional heritage, and it situates this thesis, through the experiences of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan, within a shared quest on a regional scale.