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Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Nadjma Yassari, LL.M. (London)

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

Phone: +49 40 419 00 - 240

Facsimile: +49 40 419 00 - 288

Mail: yassari@mpipriv.de

Main Fields of Research:

PIL, International and National Private Law of Islamic Countries with emphasis on the Near and Middle East, Iran and Afghanistan

 

Academic Career:

Born 1971 in Teheran/Iran; 1989-95 Legal studies Vienna and Innsbruck/Austria; 1997-98 Master of International Business Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London/Great Britain; 1999 Conferral of doctorate at the University of Innsbruck, Dissertation Topic: "The Concept of Freedom of Contract in Islamic and Western Legal Cultures"; 2000-01 Arabic language studies at the University of Damascus/Syria. 2016 post-doctorate thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Hamburg. Since 2000 research fellow responsible for the Law of Islamic Countries at the MPI. Since April 2009 leader of the Max Planck Research Group "Changes in God's Law - An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws".


Recent Lectures:

17.02.17

Das islamische Recht als Gegenstand einer modernen Rechtsvergleichung

Musik und Wissenschaft – Themenkonzert, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft/Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

  • Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

26.01.17

Die Berufstätigkeit von Frauen – Perspektiven aus islamischen

Helga Stödter-Stiftung/Max-Planck-Förderstiftung

  • Location: Hamburg

02.10.16

Custody and the best interests of the child: a paradigm shift in Muslim jurisdictions

Research Workshop on Spousal Economic Roles and Parental Care, Musawah

  • Location: Rabat

Recent Courses:

WS 2016/17

 

Einführung in das islamische Recht

Vorlesung

  • Location: Universität Hamburg, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät

SS 2016

 

Einführung in das islamische Recht

Vorlesung

  • Location: Universität Hamburg, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät

SS 2015

 

Das Familien- und Erbrecht in islamisch geprägten Rechtsordnungen

Proseminar

  • Location: Universität Hamburg, Abteilung für Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients

Recent Publications

Complete List of Publications

I. Edited Works

Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries, Asser Press, Den Haag 2017, XVIII + 353 pp. (together with Lena-Maria Möller, Imen Gallala-Arndt).

Changing God’s Law – The dynamics of Middle Eastern family law (Islamic Law in Context), Routledge, London/New York 2016, XII + 290 pp.

Approches juridiques de la diversité culturelle – Legal Approaches to Cultural Diversity (Académie de droit international de la Haye), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden 2013, XXXV + 985 pp. (together with Marie-Claire Foblets).

II. Books and Monographs

Die Brautgabe im Familienvermögensrecht – Innerislamischer Rechtsvergleich und Integration in das deutsche Recht (Beiträge zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht, 104), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, XXXIV + 580 pp.

  • reviewed by: Rohe, Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht 2015, 812.
  • reviewed by: Ebert, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 79 (2015), 453-456.
  • reviewed by: Schneider Kayasseh, EJIMEL 2 (2014), 92-96.

III. Shorter Works in Collections, Commentaries, Handbooks and Encyclopaedia

Synopsis, in: Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller, Imen Gallala-Arndt (eds.), Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries, Asser Press, Den Haag 2017, 325 - 353 (together with Lena-Maria Möller, Imen Gallala-Arndt).

Adoption im islamischen Rechtskreis, in: Rolf Behrentin (ed.), Handbuch Adoptionsrecht, C.H. Beck, München 2017, 445 - 451.

Between procedure and substance – A review of law making in Egypt, in: Nora Alim (ed.), Changing God’s Law – The dynamics of Middle Eastern Family Law (Islamic Law in Context), Routledge, London/New York 2016, 113 - 130 (together with Nora Alim).

IV. Journal Articles

Projekt zu Mehr- und Kinderehen in Syrien, Neue juristische Wochenschrift, NJW-aktuell 33 (2016), 19.

Adding by Choice: Adoption and Functional Equivalents in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, The American Journal of Comparative Law 63 (2015), 927 - 962.

  • Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 16/4

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Publisher version (DOI)

Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 16/4 (Publisher version)

Introduction – Negotiating Parenthood in Muslim Countries: Changing Concepts and Perceptions, The American Journal of Comparative Law 63 (2015), 819 - 827 (together with Lena-Maria Möller, Imen Gallala-Arndt).

  • Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 16/2

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Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 16/2 (Publisher version)

V. Case notes

Anmerkung zu KG, 08.04.2015 - 13 WF 57/15 (Auslegung einer Brautgabevereinbarung), Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht 2015, 1610.

Scheidung iranischer Eheleute in Deutschland, OLG Celle, 15.08.2011 - 10 WF 73/11, FamRB international: Informationsdienst für die familienrechtliche Praxis 1 (2012), 2 - 4.

Scheidung in Deutschland nach iranischem Recht, OLG Koblenz, 26.11.2008 - 9 UF 653/06, FamRBint 2009, 26 - 27.

VI. Reviews

Review of: Mallat, Introduction to Middle Eastern Law 2009, The American Journal of Comparative Law 59 (2011), 1135 - 1139.

Review of: Ebert (Hrsg), Beitrage zum Islamischen Recht 2000, ORIENT 2002, 289 - 291.

VII. Conference Reports

Perspectives for the unification and harmonisation of family law in Europe – Conference of the Commission on European Family Law in December 2002 in Utrecht, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2003, 658 - 659 (together with Jens Scherpe).