Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe
Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law
Professors
Address
Kochstraße 2 (Eingang über Schillerstr.1)91054 Erlangen
Contact
- Email: mathias.rohe@fau.de
| since 2021 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Islam Kolleg Deutschland e.V. |
| since 2018 | Ordinary member of the Bavarian Academy for Sciences and Humanities |
| since 2018 | Honorary doctor at the University of Ankara |
| since 2014 | Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law |
| 2011-2013 | Head of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice working group “Parallel Justice” |
| 2012-2013 | Head of the working group on “Islamism and Islamophobia” organized by the Austrian State Secretary for Integration (“Dialogforum Islam”) |
| 2011 | Conferment of the “Karl-Steinbauer-Zeichen” of the Bavarian Parish-brotherhood for Christian courage |
| since 2010 | Project group member of the second Deutsche Islamkonferenz (German Islam Conference) |
| since 2008 | Founding director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and the Law in Europe |
| 2006-2009 | Member of the first German Islam Conference (Federal Ministry of the Interior), working group 2 (constitutional issues) |
| 2004-2006 | Dean of the Law Faculty in Erlangen |
| October 2004 | Rejection of an offer for the Chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Tübingen |
| 2001-2007 | Judge at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht), Nuremberg |
| July 1999 | Offer from the Chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| September 1997 | Offer from the Chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| Summer 1997 | Interim chairs in Augsburg and Potsdam |
| February 1997 | Habilitation in the fields of civil law, private international law and procedural law, comparative law and European law; habilitation thesis on complex contractual relationships (Netzverträge – Rechtsprobleme komplexer Vertragsverbindungen) |
| since 1997 | Extensive activities as an expert in parliaments and consultant in the fields of domestic and foreign governments; hundreds of interviews for German and international media |
| 1993-1997 | Assistant to Prof. Dr. Wernhard Möschel/University of Tübingen |
| 1993 | Doctorate (Dr. jur.) with a dissertation on private international law (on the application of lex loci delicti); Awarded the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel Foundation sponsorship prize |
| since 1991 | Various invitations to hold lectures on legal and Islamic topics (among others in Montreal, Ottawa, Yale, Harvard, Washington DC, St. Louis, Denver, Provo, Oxford, London, Leicester, Coventry, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Bergen, Leiden, Utrecht, Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Leuven, Rennes, Strasbourg, Barcelona, Zurich, Bern, Salzburg, Vienna, Graz, Turin, Milan, Venice, Florence, Krakow, Budapest, Minsk, Fes, Casablanca, Istanbul, Ankara, Kayseri, Malatya, Beirut, Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, Cairo, Tripoli, Kabul, Dushanbe, Lahore, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe) |
| since 1990 | Publications in the fields of civil law, private international law, comparative law, European law, civil procedure, Islamic law as well as publications dealing with legal questions relating to Islam |
| 1990-1995 | Teaching courses in German law for foreign lawyers in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 1989-1992 | Practical legal training in Tübingen; Second State Examination |
| 1988-1993 | Assistant to Prof. Dr. Dietrich Rothoeft/University of Tübingen |
| 1981-1989 | Islamic Studies in Tübingen and Damascus (1984-85); Master’s degree with a thesis on classical Islamic law (Dealing with theft according to the four schools) |
| 1981-1988 | Study of law in Tübingen, First State Examination |
| 1979-1981 | Mandatory civilian service (in lieu of military service) at the Protestant Family Vacation Resort in Gomadingen |
| 1978-1979 | Worked as a cook in Saudi Arabia and for the delivery service of the German Federal Post Office (Deutsche Bundespost), Sojourn in various oriental countries |
| 1978 | Higher education entrance qualification (Abitur) at the Wirtemberg-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Untertürkheim; Scheffel Award for the best performance in German; Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| since 1975 | Sojourns in the following Orient countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Malaysia |
| 12.10.1959 | Born in Stuttgart |
Summer term 2022
- Introduction to Islamic Law II
- Islam and Law in Europe
- Basic Principles of Family Law
- Comparative Law
- Seminar on International Private Law and Comparative Law / Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence
A. Islam and culture related issues
- Legal status of Islam in Germany and Europe and its development in an European context
- Islamic law, especially its development in present day
- Multicultural conflicts and intercultural communication
B. Civil/international law
- German and international banking and credit security law
- Legal position concerning complex contractual relationships
- German and international liability law
Academic
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, since 2018
- Founding director of the Erlangen Center for Islam and the Law in Europe (EZIRE)
- Vice-President of the board of trustees of the Near and Middle East Association (NuMOV – Nah- und Mittelostverein)
- Consultative Commitee of the Department ‚Law and Anthropology‘ at Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology Halle
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Avicenna Foundation
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Forum Islamic-Theological Studies
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Documentation Center for Religious reasoned Extremism (Political Islam), Federal Government, Vienna
- Co-founder, board member and from 2001-2009 President of the Society for Arabic and Islamic Law (GAIR – Gesellschaft für arabisches und islamisches Recht )
- Board of trustees of the Eugen-Biser-Foundation Munich
- Board of trustees of the Islamkolleg Deutschland e.V.
- Editorial Board, EJIMEL (Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law)
- Associate editor, Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe
- Advisory Board, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia
- Advisory Board, Journal of Law, University of Kuwait
- Advisory Board, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion
- Associate Member, International Academy of Comparative Law
- Member of the Independent Expert Group on Muslimophobia (Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Homeland, Berlin)
- From the 1st of October 2019 Dean of Research of the Law Faculty
- Executive Director of the advisory board of the Department for Islamic-Religious Studies (Special Representative of the President) (Department für islamisch-religiöse Studien, DIRS)
- Chairman of the Library Comittee of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Bibliotheksausschuss der FAU)
- Chairman of the Board of the Vinzl-Foundation at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- German-Turkish Lawyers‘ Association (DTJV – Deutsch-Türkische Juristenvereinigung)
- Banking Law Association – Academic Society for Banking Law (Bankrechtliche Vereinigung – Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht)
- Comparative Law Society (Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung)
- Academic Association for International Procedural Law (Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht)
- German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV – Deutscher Hochschulverband)
- Treasurer of the Supporting Association for Family and Academia at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Schatzmeister des Fördervereins Familie und Wissenschaft e.V.) – from its formation in 2005 until its dissolution in 2019
Miscellaneous
- Evangelic-Lutheran Church in Bavaria (Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche in Bayern)
- Board of trustees of the Lutheran City Academy, Erlangen (Evangelische Stadtakademie Erlangen)
- Advisory Board of the Christian-Islamic Association (Christlich-islamische Gesellschaft)
- Christian-Islamic Working Group Erlangen (Christlich – islamische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Erlangen)
- Advisory Board of Kreuz+Quer – Haus der Kirche Erlangen
- Neustadt Church Choir (Bass)
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