Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Ari Schriber (Utrecht University): Sharīʿa, droit musulman, and Colonial Legality: The Conflict of “Paternity Claim” (istilḥāq) in Colonial-Era Moroccan Courts
Anne Röthel was appointed as Director of the Institute as of 1 January 2024. On the occasion of her induction on 18 April 2024, she presented her research agenda in her inaugural lecture.
Around 40 international legal scholars and practitioners came together at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law from 4-8 July 2023 for the Decolonial Comparative Law Summer School to discuss the various contexts of as well as the methodological approaches to decolonial comparative law.
Shéhérazade Elyazidi analyzes at Latest Thinking the interplay between the Kurdish-Iraqi national identity and the 2008 reform of Iraq’s Personal Status Law.
Meet some of the panelists of the international conference “Succession in Islamic Law”, which will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law on 30 and 31 March 2023.
Virtual roundtable as part of the series Russia's aggression against Ukraine: Conversations on law and policy implications for Japan and Germany on 11 January 2023.