Lena-Maria Möller


Doctoral candidate within the Max Planck Research Group: Changes in God's Law - An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws

Tel: +49 40 419 00 - 254
Fax: +49 40 419 00 - 288
  moeller@mpipriv.de

Main Areas of Research:

PIL, International and National Private Law of Islamic Countries with emphasis on North Africa and the Arab Gulf States

Academic Career:

Born 1984; 2004 - 2010 M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Law (University of Hamburg and Columbia University, New York); Arabic language studies at the National Institute of Languages in Bochum; 2006 Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); 2009 Visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion, Columbia University. Since October 2010 Doctoral candidate within the Max Planck Research Group: Changes in God's Law: An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws
  • Dissertation project:
    The New Codifications in the Gulf States: Towards a Modern Muslim Family Law?

Lectures

  • Einführung in das islamische Recht, VL Rechtsvergleichung, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 15.12.2011.
  • Islamisches Recht: die Sharia im modernen Rechtsstaat, 4. Nacht des Wissens 2011, Hamburg, 29.10.2011.
  • Die neuen Familienrechtskodifikationen in den Golfstaaten Bahrain, Katar und den VAE, 18. Internationaler DAVO Kongress, Berlin, 07.10.2011.

Courses

  • Islamic Family Law in Theory and Practice, University of Hamburg, Seminar SS 2011

Publications

  • Die neuen Familienrechtskodifikationen in den arabischen Golfstaaten Bahrain, Katar und Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, StAZ Das Standesamt 2011, 325 - 332.
  • Last update: 15 Dec. 2011
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