Afrooz Maghzi Najafabadi
Afrooz Maghzi Najafabadi, Dr.
Research Associate
Erlanger Zentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa (EZIRE)
Bohlenplatz 6
91054 Erlangen
Office hours: on appointment
Personal details
| seit 10/2022 | Research Associate at the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| seit 07/2017 | PhD candidate at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (title: „Non-State Justice in Europe in the light of the European Convention of Human Rights“) and Research Associate at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle-Wittenberg |
| 2015-2016 | LLM, University College Dublin (Ireland) |
| 2013-2015 | Researcher at the Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) |
| seit 06/2003 | Attorney at law and legal consultant at the Central Bar Association, Teheran, Iran |
| 2011-2004 | LLM, Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Mazandaran (Iran) |
| 1996-2000 | LL.B., University of Tehran (Iran) |
Research profile
- Legal pluralism
- Restorative Justice
- Sexual Crimes
- Violence against Women and Children
- Family Law, Human Rights Law, Islamic law
- Political crimes, criminal law and civil society
Publications
- (forthcoming) Beyond Shadow Justice: Systematics analysis of types and functions of non-state justice in minority groups. Book chapter for the forthcoming collective publication of the project Conflict Regulation in Germany’s Plural Society, Max Planck Institute for social anthropology, Halle/Saale.
- (2017) The new Iranian penal code: traditionalist versus modern approaches. In: Abdurrahman Eren and Refik M. Korkusuz (eds.). Islamic criminal law 2. 1. ed. Istanbul: Lale Yayıncılık; Uluslararası Hukukçular Birliği, pp. 30–49.
- (2017) Challenges to the regulation of sexuality under Iranian criminal law. In: Silvia Tellenbach und Thoralf Hanstein (eds.). Beiträge zum Islamischen Recht XII. 1. ed. Leipziger Beiträge zur Orientforschung 36. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, pp. 99–132.