Books

Die Golfstaaten auf dem Weg zu einem modernen Recht für die Familie? Zur Kodifikation des Personalstatuts in Bahrain, Katar und den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten (Mohr Siebeck 2015).

 

Edited Volumes & Special Issues

Special Issue Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives (2024) 16 Middle East Law and Governance (with Hanan Badr).

Special Issue Female Legal Professionals in Popular Culture – a Transnational Comparison (2023) 30 International Journal of the Legal Profession (with Shahd Alshammari).

The MENA Region and COVID-19: Impact, Implications and Prospects (Routledge 2022) (with Zeina Hobaika & Jan Claudius Völkel). doi:10.4324/9781003240044.

Special Issue Ten Years after the Arab Uprisings: Beyond Media and Liberation (2021) 9 Media and Communication (with Hanan Badr).

Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer 2019) (with Nadjma Yassari & Marie-Claude Najm). doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-311-5.

Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer 2017) (with Nadjma Yassari & Imen Gallala-Arndt). doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-174-6.

First Max Planck Symposium Issue on Child Law in Muslim Countries (2015) 63 The American Journal of Comparative Law (with Nadjma Yassari & Imen Gallala-Arndt).

 

Refereed Journal Articles

One Year of Civil Family Law in the United Arab Emirates: A Preliminary Assessment (2024) 38 Arab Law Quarterly, 219-234. doi:10.1163/15730255-bja10140.

The ideal Emirati woman lawyer: femininity and professionalism in Justice: Qalb Al Adala (2023) 30 International Journal of the Legal Profession, 291-304. doi:10.1080/09695958.2023.2225855.

Marital Choice and “Suitability” in a Heterogeneous Society: Some Reflections on Kafāʾa in the United Arab Emirates (2022) VI Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Festschrift Shaheen Sardar Ali), 134-147. doi:10.1163/9789004520806_008.

Family Law in the GCC and the Best Interests of the Child: The Multiple Meanings of a Vague Legal Concept (2018) 16 Hawwa – Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 309-332. doi:10.1163/15692086-12341341.

Wenn Jugendliche heiraten: Die Minderjährigenehe aus rechtsvergleichender und internationalprivatrechtlicher Sicht (2017) 50 Kritische Justiz, 269-285 (with Nadjma Yassari). doi:10.5771/0023-4834-2017-3-269.

An Enduring Relic: Family Law Reform and the Inflexibility of Wilāya (2015) 63 The American Journal of Comparative Law, 893-925. doi:10.5131/AJCL.2015.0027.

No Fear of Talāq: A Reconsideration of Muslim Divorce Laws in Light of the Rome III Regulation (2014) 10 Journal of Private International Law, 461-487. doi:10.5235/17441048.10.3.461.

Family Law in the Arab Gulf: Recent Developments and Reform Patterns (2013) 9 Journal of International Law and Islamic Law (formerly Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law), 22-39.

Custody Regulations in the United Arab Emirates: Legal Reforms and Social Realities (2013) 11 Hawwa – Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 41-57. doi:10.1163/15692086-12341242.

 

Other Journal Articles

Introduction to special issue Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives (2024) 16 Middle East Law and Governance, 1-6 (with Hanan Badr). doi: 10.1163/18763375-16010003.

Introduction to special issue: Images of female legal professionals in popular culture – a transnational comparison (2023) 30 International Journal of the Legal Profession, 217-220 (with Shahd Alshammari). doi:10.1080/09695958.2023.2228694.

Editorial: Beyond Mainstream Media and Communication Perspectives on the Arab Uprisings (2021) 9 Media and Communication, 260-263 (with Hanan Badr). doi:10.17645/mac.v9i4.5151.

Überblick über das syrische Familienrecht (2017) 70 Das Standesamt, 298-303.

Introduction – Negotiating Parenthood in Muslim Countries: Changing Concepts and Perceptions (2015) 63 The American Journal of Comparative Law, 819-827 (with Imen Gallala-Arndt & Nadjma Yassari). doi:10.5131/AJCL.2015.0024.

Die neuen Familienrechtskodifikationen in den Golfstaaten Bahrain, Katar und (2011) 64 Das Standesamt, 325-332.

 

Book Chapters

Introduction: The MENA region and COVID-19 – concept and content of this book, in The MENA Region and COVID-19: Impact, Implications and Prospects, Zeina Hobeika, Lena-Maria Möller & Jan Claudius Völkel (eds) (Routledge 2022) (with Zeina Hobaika & Jan Claudius Völkel), 1-16. doi:10.4324_97810‌03240044-1.

Conclusions: The MENA region and COVID-19 – lessons for the future, in The MENA Region and COVID-19: Impact, Implications and Prospects, Zeina Hobeika, Lena-Maria Möller & Jan Claudius Völkel (eds) (Routledge 2022) (with Zeina Hobaika & Jan Claudius Völkel), 171-175. doi:10.4324_97810‌‌03240044-14.

Kindschaftsrecht und elterliche Sorge in Syrien: Eine rechtsvergleichende Einordnung, in Migration und Heimatrecht: Herausforderungen muslimisch geprägter Zuwanderung nach Deutschland, Irene Schneider, Hatem Elliesie & Silvia Tellenbach (eds) (Harrassowitz Verlag 2022), 81-92.

United Arab Emirates: Temporary Multiculturalism, but Permanent Legal Pluralism?, in Normativity and Diversity in Family Law: Lessons from Comparative Law, Nadjma Yassari & Marie-Claire Foblets (eds) (Springer 2022), 101-117. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83106-6_5.

Religiöser Einfluss auf staatliches Recht in islamischen Ländern, in Kirchenrecht im Dialog (Tagungsband zur Tagung des Instituts für Kanonisches Recht, 18.-20. Februar 2019, Fulda), Thomas Schüller & Thomas Neumann (eds) (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2020), 132-146.

Familienrecht und Religion: Ein Blick in das islamische Recht, in Familienrecht und Religion – Europäische Perspektiven –, Claudia Mayer et al. (eds) (Gieseking Verlag 2019), 183-201.

United Arab Emirates, in Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions, Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller & Marie-Claude Najm (eds) (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer 2019), 351-372. doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-311-5_13.

Synopsis, in Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions, Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller & Marie-Claude Najm (eds) (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer 2019), 403-412 (with Nadjma Yassari). doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-311-5_15.

Recht in Afghanistan ab 1920, in Handbuch der Iranistik Bd. II, Ludwig Paul (ed) (Reichert 2017), 243-252 (with Nadjma Yassari).

Synopsis, in Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries, Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller & Imen Gallala-Arndt (eds) (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer 2017), 325-353 (with Nadjma Yassari & Imen Gallala-Arndt). doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-174-6_12.

Improving Women’s Rights through Children’s Rights? The Reform of Custody Laws in Contemporary Muslim Jurisdictions, in Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination / Les droits des femmes et l’élimination de la discrimination (Académie de droit international de la Haye), Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg & Hélène Tigroudja (eds) (Brill Nijhoff 2016), 465-489. doi:10.1163/1875-8096_pplcdu_ej.9789004327559.‌‌ch12.

Struggling for a Modern Family Law: A Khaleeji Perspective, in Changing God’s Law: The Dynamics of Middle Eastern Family Law, Nadjma Yassari (ed) (Routledge 2016), 83-112.

Recht im Iran ab 1925, in Handbuch der Iranistik Bd. I, Ludwig Paul (ed) (Reichert 2013), 144-154 (with Nadjma Yassari).

 

Encyclopedia Entries

Children and Law, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Kate Fleet et al. (eds) (Brill forthcoming, 2025).

Law: Modern Family Law, 1800-Present: Gulf States, in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online Edition (Supplement XVII), Suad Joseph et al. (eds) (Brill 2018). doi:10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_COM_‌002149.

Bahrain, in Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (Volume 3: Asia), Cole Durham and Gerhard Robbers (eds) (Brill 2016), 30-34. doi:10.1163/9789004236936_elr_COM_000088.

 

Commentaries

Art. 13-17, 20-30 Hague Protocol of 23 November 2007 on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations, in beck-online.GROSSKOMMENTAR zum Zivilrecht, Beate Gsell et al. (eds) (CH Beck 2018).

 

Case Notes

Anerkennung und Wirksamkeit islamisch geprägter Eheauflösungen in Europa: Anmerkungen zu OLG München, Beschluss vom 13.03.2018 – 34 Wx 146/14, den Schlussanträgen des EuGH-Generalanwalts Saugmandsgaard Øe vom 14.09.2017 und EuGH, Urteil vom 20.12.2017 – C-372/16 (Soha Sahyouni ./. Raja Mamisch) (2018) Zeitschrift für Recht & Islam/Journal of Law & Islam, 9-15.

 

Book Reviews

Review of Uwe Kischel (ed), Religiöses Recht und religiöse Gerichte als Herausforderung des Staates (Mohr Siebeck 2016) (2018) 82 The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law, 229-233.

 

Web-Based Publications

Between religious diversity and national unity: The role of family law in Syria’s transitional justice journey (LSE Religion and Global Society interdisciplinary blog, 15 January 2025) <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobalsociety/2025/01/between-religious-diversity-and-national-unity-the-role-of-family-law-in-syrias-transitional-justice-journey/>.

Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation on Civil Family Law and Muslim Foreigners: Has the Tide Turned? (Conflictoflaws.net: Views and News in Private International Law, 15 November 2024) <https://conflictoflaws.net/2024/abu-dhabi-court-of-cassation-on-civil-family-law-and-muslim-foreigners-has-the-tide-turned/>.

Abu Dhabi introduces personal status law for non-Muslim foreigners, shakes up domestic and international family law (Conflictoflaws.net: Views and News in Private International Law, 11 November 2021) <https://conflictoflaws.net/2021/abu-dhabi-introduces-personal-status-law-for-non-muslim-foreigners/>.

Vereinigte Arabische Emirate: Weitere familienrechtliche Neuerungen (Bergmann-Aktuell News 11/2020, 25 November 2020) <www.vfst.de/bergmann-aktuell/nachrichten/vereinigte-arabische-emirate-weitere-familienrechtliche-neuerungen>.

Muslime und die COVID-19-Pandemie: Pilgern in Zeiten von Corona (Qantara.de – Dialog mit der islamischen Welt, 16 April 2020) <https://de.qantara.de/node/39856> (with Serdar Kurnaz) (also available in English and Arabic).

Vereinigte Arabische Emirate: Familienrechtliche Neuerungen (Bergmann-Aktuell News 2/2020, 26 February 2020) <www.vfst.de/bergmann-aktuell/nachrichten/familienrechtliche-neuerungen-2020-02-26>.

Gleichberechtigung in Tunesien: Die Revolution frisst ihre Töchter (Zenith Online, 23 August 2012) <https://magazin.zenith.me/de/archiv/verfassungsentwurf-tunesien> (with Jannik Veenhuis).