Invited Talks

Family Law in the GCC: Recent Developments and Legislative Trends, Tsinghua University, 10 December 2024.

Federal Civil Family Law No. 41 of 2022: International and Comparative Perspectives, Dubai Judicial Institute, 16 March 2023.

Zur Wahrnehmung von Geschlecht und Religion im IPR: Das Beispiel des islamisch geprägten Familienrechts, Study Day Legal Gender Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, 6 December 2018.

The Best Interests of the Child in Contemporary Muslim Jurisdictions, MiKK e.V. International Mediation Centre for Family Conflict and Child Abduction, Berlin, 5 October 2016.

The Best of Interests of the Child: A Comparative Analysis of Gulf Jurisdictions, Gulf Regional Seminar: Protecting the best interests of the child in cross-border family disputes (organized by Global Affairs Canada, the HCCH and the Doha International Family Institute), Doha, Qatar, 29 March 2016.

Das islamische Strafrecht: Theorie und Praxis, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, 3 November 2015.

In Whose Best Interests? Child Custody and the Complex Interplay between Women’s and Children’s Rights, Royal University for Women, Riffa, Bahrain, 9 March 2015.

Qatari Family Law from a Comparative Perspective, College of Education, Qatar University, Doha, 4 March 2015.

Das iranische Kindschaftsrecht in vergleichender Perspektive, German-Iranian-Association of Northern Germany, University of Hamburg, 7 February 2013.

 

Conference Participation

The European Convention on Human Rights and the Role of Courts in Securing Its Application at the Domestic Level of Member States, Abu Dhabi Judicial Department International Forum: The Role of Law and the Judiciary in Promoting Human Rights, Abu Dhabi, 10 December 2024.

The New Civil Family Laws in the UAE and Their Application in the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court, International Family Law Conference 2023, Abu Dhabi, 27 April 2023.

Kindschaftsrecht und elterliche Sorge in Syrien: Eine rechtsvergleichende Einordnung, Annual Conference of the German Association for Arabic and Islamic Law, University of Göttingen, 26 October 2019.

Choice of Partner and Spousal Equivalence in a Heterogeneous Society: On the Judicial Interpretation of Kafāʾa in the United Arab Emirates, 26^th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Hamburg, 4 October 2019.

Book launch: Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer 2019) by Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller & Marie-Claude Najm (eds), 26^th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Hamburg, 4 October 2019.

Familienrecht und Religion: Ein Blick in das islamische Recht, 14th Symposium on European Family Law: Family Law and Religion – European Perspectives, University of Regensburg, 15 March 2019.

Religiöser Einfluss auf staatliches Recht in islamischen Ländern, Interdisciplinary Symposium: Canon Law in Dialogue, Episcopal Seminary Fulda, 19 February 2019.

United Arab Emirates: Temporary Multiculturalism, but Permanent Legal Pluralism?, Contribution to panel “Multicultural Challenges in Family Law”, 20th General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Fukuoka, 27 July 2018.

Emirati Women and the Codification of Family Law, Varieties of Emirati Womanhood: Subjectivities, Creativities, and Confines, NYU Abu Dhabi, 28 March 2018.

The Best Interests of the Child in Contemporary Muslim Jurisdictions, Bouncing back: Conference on the wellbeing of children in cases of international child abduction (organized by Missing Children Europe), Antwerp, 23 November 2017.

Foster Care and Adoption Structures in Contemporary Muslim Jurisdictions, Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, 10 November 2017.

Islamisch geprägtes Recht in der Praxis deutscher Gerichte: Anwendungsbereiche und rechtspolitische Debatten, Symposium: Islamic Law Applied, Zentrum für Islamische Theologie, University of Münster, 23 September 2017.

Panel discussion: Kulturelle Diversität und Familie in Deutschland: Flucht, Migration und die Familie in Geschichte und Gegenwart, University of Göttingen, 16 May 2017.

Inner-Islamic Legal Pluralism in Bahrain and the Struggle for a Shi’i Family Code, Legal Pluralism in Personal Status Law: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 28 October 2016.

Syria’s Political Disintegration and its Implications for European Private International Law in Matters of Personal Status: Some Preliminary Observations, Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Meeting, Catania, Italy, 17 March 2016.

Custody Law Reforms and the Inflexibility of Wilāya, Islam, Plural Societies and Legal Pluralism: Fifth Joint Conference Georg-August-University Göttingen & Islamic State University Sunan Kalijaga of Yogyakarta, Göttingen, 28 July 2015.

The Use and Misuse of a Comparative Approach to Family Law Reform, Heterodox Approaches to Islamic Law and Policy, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA, 2 June 2014.

No Fear of Talāq: Revisiting Muslim Divorce Laws in Light of the Rome III Regulation, Law and Society Association 2014 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, 30 May 2014.

Agreeing on Divorce? Party Autonomy upon the Dissolution of Marriage, The Dynamics of Legal Development in Islamic Countries – Family and Succession Law, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, 18 October 2013.

Family Law in the Arab Gulf: Recent Developments and Reform Patterns, Exploring New Directions in the Islamic Legal Tradition: Human Rights and Legal Reform in the 21^st Century, Brunel University, London, UK, 18 June 2013.

The Application of Islamic Family Law in German Courts, The Comparative Law Triangle: The Influence of Common Law, Civil Law and Islamic Law on Each Other, Qatar University, Doha, 7 October 2012.

Custody Regulations in the United Arab Emirates: Legal Reforms and Social Realities, Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region, Oxford University, UK, 12 June 2012.

Die neuen Familienrechtskodifikationen in den Golfstaaten Bahrain, Katar und VAE, 18^th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Berlin, 7 October 2011.Zwischen Religion und Politik: Marokkos Vorbehalte zur UN-Frauenrechtskonvention und die Reform des nationalen Familienrechts, 31^st Meeting of the German Oriental Society, Marburg, 21 September 2010.