Lena-Maria Möller
- Law,
- Middle East Studies
Areas of Expertise:
Islamic law; Muslim family law; Comparative law; Private international law; Law and popular culture in the Middle East
Membership:
2018
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2024
Contact
Qatar University
College of Law – Qatar University
PO Box 2713, Building I09, A325
Doha, Qatar
About me
I am very enthusiastic about AGYA’s principle aim of bringing together scholars from Germany and the Arab world to collaborate in joint transdisciplinary research projects.
Academic career
| 2024 - today | Research Assistant Professor, College of Law, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar |
| 2019 - today | Associate Editor, Arab Law Quarterly (Brill) |
| 2019 - 2021 | Acting Professor of Islamic Law, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany |
| 2016 | Visiting Professor of Islamic Law, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster, Germany |
| 2015 - 2016 | Member of the research initiative ‘The Gulf Family’, Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar |
| 2014 - 2019 | Senior Research Fellow Research Group: Changes in God's Law: An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2014 | Ph.D. in Law (University of Hamburg); recipient of the doctoral prize from the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg and the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society |
| 2013 - 2014 | Acting Junior Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Middle East Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany |
| 2010 - 2013 | Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2010 | M.A. in Middle East Studies and Law (University of Hamburg) |
- AGYA Publications
- Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives
- The ideal Emirati woman lawyer: femininity and professionalism in Justice: Qalb Al Adala
- Ten Years after the Arab Uprisings: Beyond Media and Liberation
- Beyond Mainstream Media and Communication Perspectives on the Arab Uprisings
- The MENA Region and COVID-19. Impact, Implications and Prospects
- Introduction: The MENA Region and COVID-19 – Concept and Content of this Book
- My Commitment to AGYA
- Former AGYA Co-President 2019 - 2020
- Former Member of the AGYA Steering Committee 2018 - 2020
- Selection Committee 'New AGYA Members' 2020
On a personal note
Must read in my discipline:
Modern Challenges to Islamic Law by Shaheen Sardar Ali
Favourite novel from my country:
Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(almost 250 years old and still relevant)
Best scientist from my country:
Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
