{"id":80,"date":"2025-02-10T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T10:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/lena-maria-moeller\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2025-02-10T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T10:59:45","slug":"lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/lena-maria-moeller\/lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Invited Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Family Law in the GCC: Recent Developments and Legislative Trends<\/em>, Tsinghua University, 10 December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Federal Civil Family Law No. 41 of 2022: International and Comparative Perspectives<\/em>, Dubai Judicial Institute, 16&nbsp;March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Zur Wahrnehmung von Geschlecht und Religion im IPR: Das Beispiel des islamisch gepr\u00e4gten Familienrechts<\/em>, Study Day Legal Gender Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, 6 December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Best Interests of the Child in Contemporary Muslim Jurisdictions<\/em>, MiKK e.V. International Mediation Centre for Family Conflict and Child Abduction, Berlin, 5 October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Best of Interests of the Child: A Comparative Analysis of Gulf Jurisdictions<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Das islamische Strafrecht: Theorie und Praxis<\/em>, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, 3 November 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In Whose Best Interests? Child Custody and the Complex Interplay between Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Rights<\/em>, Royal University for Women, Riffa, Bahrain, 9 March 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Qatari Family Law from a Comparative Perspective<\/em>, College of Education, Qatar University, Doha, 4 March 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><em>Das iranische Kindschaftsrecht in vergleichender Perspektive<\/em>, German-Iranian-Association of Northern Germany, University of Hamburg, 7 February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference Participation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The European Convention on Human Rights and the Role of Courts in Securing Its Application at the Domestic Level of Member States<\/em>, Abu Dhabi Judicial Department International Forum: The Role of Law and the Judiciary in Promoting Human Rights, Abu Dhabi, 10 December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The New Civil Family Laws in the UAE and Their Application in the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court<\/em>, International Family Law Conference 2023, Abu Dhabi, 27 April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kindschaftsrecht und elterliche Sorge in Syrien: Eine rechtsvergleichende Einordnung<\/em>, Annual Conference of the German Association for Arabic and Islamic Law, University of G\u00f6ttingen, 26 October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Choice of Partner and Spousal Equivalence in a Heterogeneous Society: On the Judicial Interpretation of Kaf\u0101<\/em><em>\u02be<\/em><em>a in the United Arab Emirates<\/em>, 26<sup>th<\/sup> International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Hamburg, 4 October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Book launch: Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions<\/em> (T.M.C. Asser Press\/Springer 2019) by Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria M\u00f6ller &amp; Marie-Claude Najm (eds), 26<sup>th<\/sup> International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Hamburg, 4&nbsp;October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Familienrecht und Religion: Ein Blick in das islamische Recht<\/em>, 14th Symposium on European Family Law: Family Law and Religion \u2013 European Perspectives, University of Regensburg, 15&nbsp;March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Religi\u00f6ser Einfluss auf staatliches Recht in islamischen L\u00e4ndern<\/em>, Interdisciplinary Symposium: Canon Law in Dialogue, Episcopal Seminary Fulda, 19 February 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>United Arab Emirates: Temporary Multiculturalism, but Permanent Legal Pluralism?<\/em>, Contribution to panel \u201cMulticultural Challenges in Family Law\u201d, 20th General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Fukuoka, 27 July 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Emirati Women and the Codification of Family Law<\/em>, Varieties of Emirati Womanhood: Subjectivities, Creativities, and Confines, NYU Abu Dhabi, 28 March 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Best Interests of the Child in Contemporary Muslim Jurisdictions<\/em>, Bouncing back: Conference on the wellbeing of children in cases of international child abduction (organized by Missing Children Europe), Antwerp, 23&nbsp;November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Foster Care and Adoption Structures in Contemporary Muslim Jurisdictions<\/em>, Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?, Universit\u00e9 Saint-Joseph, Beirut, 10&nbsp;November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Islamisch gepr\u00e4gtes Recht in der Praxis deutscher Gerichte: Anwendungsbereiche und rechtspolitische Debatten<\/em>, Symposium: Islamic Law Applied, Zentrum f\u00fcr Islamische Theologie, University of M\u00fcnster, 23 September 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Panel discussion: Kulturelle Diversit\u00e4t und Familie in Deutschland: Flucht, Migration und die Familie in Geschichte und Gegenwart<\/em>, University of G\u00f6ttingen, 16 May 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Inner-Islamic Legal Pluralism in Bahrain and the Struggle for a Shi&#8217;i Family Code<\/em>, Legal Pluralism in Personal Status Law: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University G\u00f6ttingen, 28 October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Syria\u2019s Political Disintegration and its Implications for European Private International Law in Matters of Personal Status: Some Preliminary Observations<\/em>, Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Meeting, Catania, Italy, 17 March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Custody Law Reforms and the Inflexibility of Wil\u0101ya<\/em>, Islam, Plural Societies and Legal Pluralism: Fifth Joint Conference Georg-August-University G\u00f6ttingen &amp; Islamic State University Sunan Kalijaga of Yogyakarta, G\u00f6ttingen, 28 July 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Use and Misuse of a Comparative Approach to Family Law Reform<\/em>, Heterodox Approaches to Islamic Law and Policy, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA, 2 June 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>No Fear of <\/em><em>Tal\u0101q<\/em><em>: Revisiting Muslim Divorce Laws in Light of the Rome III Regulation<\/em>, Law and Society Association 2014 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, 30 May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Agreeing on Divorce? Party Autonomy upon the Dissolution of Marriage<\/em>, The Dynamics of Legal Development in Islamic Countries \u2013 Family and Succession Law, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, 18 October 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Family Law in the Arab Gulf: Recent Developments and Reform Patterns<\/em>, Exploring New Directions in the Islamic Legal Tradition: Human Rights and Legal Reform in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century, Brunel University, London, UK, 18 June 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Application of Islamic Family Law in German Courts<\/em>, The Comparative Law Triangle: The Influence of Common Law, Civil Law and Islamic Law on Each Other, Qatar University, Doha, 7 October 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Custody Regulations in the United Arab Emirates: Legal Reforms and Social Realities<\/em>, Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region, Oxford University, UK, 12 June 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Die neuen Familienrechtskodifikationen in den Golfstaaten Bahrain, Katar und VAE<\/em>, 18<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, Berlin, 7 October 2011.<em>Zwischen Religion und Politik: Marokkos Vorbehalte zur UN-Frauenrechtskonvention und die Reform des nationalen Familienrechts<\/em>, 31<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Meeting of the German Oriental Society, Marburg, 21 September 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invited Talks Family Law in the GCC: Recent Developments and Legislative Trends, Tsinghua University, 10 December 2024. 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