Gizem Halis Kasap graduated with a high honor degree from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 2013. She became a member of the Istanbul Bar in 2015, and as of 2018, she successfully passed the New York Bar Exam, currently pending admission. She received her LLM degree with a focus of arbitration from Penn State University School of Law, and currently conducts her SJD studies at Wake Forest University School of Law in North Carolina, enhancing her expertise in international arbitration, US commercial law and alternative dispute resolution."