Lena-Maria Möller is specialized in comparative law, private international law, and contemporary Middle Eastern legal systems. She holds a Ph.D. in Law and an M.A. in Middle East Studies, both from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research employs comparative legal methods and theories to examine the complex interplay between state, religious, and international legal regimes in pluralistic legal contexts. Dr. Möller’s work particularly examines this dynamic through the lens of legislative developments and judicial practices in Muslim family law.

Scholarship from her research projects has been published in, among other journals, Middle East Law and Governance, International Journal of the Legal Profession, The American Journal of Comparative Law, and Journal of Private International Law. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society and the University of Hamburg Faculty of Law Dissertation Award.

Dr. Möller is the Associate Editor of Arab Law Quarterly and an alumna as well as former Co-President of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In Fall 2024, she joined Qatar University’s College of Law as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Law and Development, where she also teaches in the Public Law Department.

Before joining Qatar University, she served as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany and held teaching positions at the Universities of Münster, Leipzig, and Augsburg.