Associate professor Ayten Erol studied Islamic Sciences at Ankara University, Turkey and obtained my Ph.D. degree in Islamic Law with the thesis titled “Conflicts of Foreign Elements in Islamic International Private Law” in 2004. The thesis is an Islamic reflection on the Conflicts of Law, which is the main subject of Private International Law, compared to Contemporary Law. She has published two books titled Comparative Islamic International Private Law (Turkish publisher) and Social Protection in Islamic Law (International publisher: Peter Lang GmbH). She is currently working at the Institute of Islamic Research and she is the Chair the Department of Women and Family Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences; both are interdisciplinary institutes of Social Sciences University of Ankara. In addition to Islamic law, she has academic and applied research in the fields of social protection, family, poverty prevention and halal nutrition and services. She has new editorials on social protection and halal nutrition and lifestyles in Islamic Law. She is actively participated in women and family research and legislative studies at the Ministerial and Congressional levels in Turkey and international organizations.