{"id":10,"date":"2025-02-02T08:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T08:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/lena-maria-moeller\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:53:21","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/lena-maria-moeller\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Selected Research Activities<\/h3>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>2025\u20132027\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Principal Investigator (PI) \u201cThe Repercussions of Economic Transformations on the Qatari Family: A Socio-Legal Analysis in Light of Islamic Law\u201d (funded by QUHSS)<\/p>\r\n<p>2024\u20132029\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Associated Fellow, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany, and Researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant \u201cDeColSharia&#8221; (\u201c(De)Colonizing Sharia?\u201d Tracing Transformation, Change and Continuity in Islamic Law in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the 19th and 20th Centuries)<\/p>\r\n<p>2024\u20132025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lead Principal Investigator (LPI) \u201cExpatriate Public Perceptions of the Qatari Legal and Judicial System: Family Law, Institutions, and Usages of Local Courts\u201d (funded by Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities\/BMBF)<\/p>\r\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\r\n<p>2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Visiting Researcher, Abu Dhabi Judicial Academy, United Arab Emirates<\/p>\r\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\r\n<p>2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Organizer Workshop \u201cFemale Legal Professionals in Popular Culture: A Transnational Comparison\u201d, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities in cooperation with the University of M\u00fcnster, Collaborative Research Centre 1385 \u201cLaw and Literature\u201d, 11-12 August 2022<\/p>\r\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\r\n<p>2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Visiting Scholar, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates<\/p>\r\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\r\n<p>2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Host Hybrid Panel Discussion \u201cLaw, Gender &amp; 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