Nadjma Yassari appointed director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
Nadjma Yassari, senior research fellow and head of the research group on Islamic Law at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, will assume the role of director at the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law (SICL) as of 1 August 2024.
The Swiss Institute for Comparative Law (SICL) is an independent federal institution based in Lausanne. The Institute is a documentation and research centre for foreign and international law. Its work focuses on private international law and international civil procedure, comparative methodology, and international economic law. The Institute also prepares legal opinions and comparative law studies for federal authorities, courts, and government agencies. Its first director was Alfred E. van Overbeck.
Prof. Dr. Nadjma Yassari, LL.M. (London), is professor of private international law, comparative law and Islamic law at the University of Hamburg. Since 2009 she has led the Max Planck Institute Research Group “Changes in God’s Law – An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws“, a globally unique research team that is studying the governing law in Islamic countries from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. From 2009 Yassari was co-director of the Centre d’étude et de recherche en droit international et relations internationales at the Hague Academy of International Law in Den Haag. In 2018 she served as general reporter at 20th International Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Fukuoka. Presently she is conducting research on assisted reproductive technology and its consequences for our understanding of family and parenthood.
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