Dr. Rahime Erbas is an associate professor of criminal law at Istanbul University. She completed her law degree at Selçuk University and her master’s in public law at Istanbul University, with an Erasmus term at Justus Liebig University in Gießen. She received her PhD in 2019 on the topic of omissions in criminal law. Dr. Erbas conducted doctoral research at Osnabrück University (2016–2017) and was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, the University of Zürich, Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Bologna. Between 2023 and 2024, she was a TÜBITAK fellow at the University of Glasgow, conducting postdoctoral research in criminal law and justice. She has also collaborated with the Turkish Ministry of Justice on offender intervention programs. Dr. Erbas has edited and authored books on criminal law, gender-based violence, and comparative criminal procedure, including titles with Istanbul University Press, Pisa University Press and Lexington. She is section editor at the Journal of Penal Law and Criminology and serves on the editorial board of Women’s Studies International Forum (Elsevier).