Dilara focuses on monetary law, examining how different institutional structures shape monetary policy and exploring more democratic approaches to economic governance. Her research takes a comparative, multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating legal, economic, and historical dimensions. Currently, she analyzes the early history of the U.S. Federal Reserve and pre-Euro monetary arrangements, with this work conducted under the FEDMONEY project. 

With a background in law and policy, she began her academic journey at Galatasaray University Law School and started her professional career as a lawyer. She then earned a master’s degree in social policy from Boğaziçi University, where her thesis examined gendered taxation and political representation in Turkey, followed by a Master of Transnational Law in Public Law from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, focusing on gender and fiscal policy.

Her work engages with critical legal scholarship and the law and political economy framework, connecting monetary and constitutional law to broader social and institutional questions.