Mahmut Esat Bozkurt was a Turkish jurist and politician, born in 1892 and dying in 1943, who served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Economy in the early Turkish Republic. He is best known for introducing an adaptation of the Swiss Civil Code into Turkish law in 1926 and for representing Turkey in the Lotus case before the Permanent Court of International Justice. He sat in the Turkish parliament from 1920 until his death and taught international and constitutional law at Ankara University.
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