Hatem Elliesie

Dr. Hatem Elliesie

Researcher

Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE)

Bohlenplatz 6
91054 Erlangen

Office hours

on appointment

Personal details

2021 Visiting professorship in Islamic Law at the University of Leipzig
since 2020 Research group coordinator at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg; Leading a BMBF project on qualitative milieu research at EZIRE
since 2019 Group coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for the research projects ‘Sharia in genuinely European settings: The connection of Muslim practices to Islamic normativity’ and ‘Conflict Regulation in Germany’s plural society’ in the Department of Law and Ethnology at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research, Halle/Saale
2017 Interim professorship of Islamic Law at the University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität) for the summer semester
2016-2019 Establishment and leadership of two research projects: ‘Sharia in genuinely European settings: The connection of Muslim practices to Islamic normativity’ (since 2016) and ‘Conflict Regulation in Germany’s plural society’ (since 2017) in the Department of Law and Ethnology at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research, Halle/Saale
2012-2015 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin); Secondments to the Public Prosecutor’s Office Berlin, the Federal Environment Agency, and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag (incl. interruptions for parental leave)
2009-2014 Research fellow and project coordinator (funded by the Innovation Fund of Freie Universität Berlin) at the Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2010-2013 Lecturer at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Faculty of Cultural, Social, and Educational Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin
2010-2012 Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 700: Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood / Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)
2009-2010 Project ‘Acquisition of the Enno Littmann Estate’ at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
2003-2005 Participation in the research projects ‘Sudan Peace Project’ and ‘Justice and Administration Building Project Afghanistan’ at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
1998-1999 Initiator and co-founder of the Lawyer’s Group at Amnesty International, Hong Kong Section, Amnesty International Asian Regional Office, Hong Kong Section
1996-1997 Cultural representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World Co., Orlando, Florida

PhD in Semitic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Magister Legum Europae (Hannover/Malta), Studies in Law (State Examination), Supplementary studies in Environmental Sciences, African and Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies, and Semitic Studies in Cairo, Oxford, Berlin, Heidelberg, Hannover, and Mannheim.

Advanced and Further Education

2021 – 2023 FAUnext Career Program at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg for high-potential individuals
2021 – 2022 Management Leadership Programs of the Planck Academy
2022 Completion of the higher education didactic advacement program ‘Thematic Certificate in Inclusive Higher Education Teaching’ at the University of Augsburg
2021 – 2022 Acquisition of the thematic certificate [DiL] DIGITAL TEACHING at the Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) and the Center for Professional Development in Higher Education Teaching (FBZHL) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
2019-2020 Completion of the Professional Management Program (PMP) for executives at the Center for Science Management
2017-2018 Further training in Multimedia Teaching in Higher Education Didactics at the Center for Multimedia Teaching and Learning at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2012-2014 Higher Education Didactic Training at the Dahlem Center for Academic Teaching (DCAT) of Freie Universität Berlin

Courses

  • Transitional Justice and Peace
  • Islamic Banking
  • Sharia in the German Context
  • Religious Parallel Justice
  • Islamic Law
  • Uṣūl al-fiqh
  • Islamic Criminal Law
  • Islamic Family Law
  • Islamic Conception of State and Islam-Influenced Politics
  • Basic Concepts of Islamic Civil and Commercial Law
  • Sharia and German Law: Theories, Terminologies, and Legal Practice
  • Normative Approaches to Descriptive and Representational Art in Islam
  • Islamic Standardization of Worship Practices
  • Challenges of Islamic Law in Europe
  • Theory and Practice of Islamic Law in Africa
  • Development Cooperation: Backgrounds, Critiques, Perspectives
  • Islam and Islamic Law in Africa and Asia
  • North African Identities in Transition since Independence
  • Law and Society in the Horn of Africa
  • Foundations of Semitics and Arabic Studies
  • Academic Writing in Arab Studies and Islamic Studies
  • Religious Identities
  • Society and Religion in the Arab and Islamic World
  • Politics, Law, and Societies in Arab-Islamic Regions in Transition
  • Study Management and Career Preparation for Oriental Studies Students
  • Propaedeutics: Foundations of Semitics and Arabic Studies
  • The Horn of Africa in History and the Present
  • Introduction to the History of Ethiopia
  • Fundamentals of Academic Work

Research Profile

  • Normativity, Law, and Religion
  • Islamic Law and Law in Africa
  • Islamic Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ethiopian Studies
  • African Studies (particularly North East Africa and the Horn of Africa)
  • International Law, European Law, Comparative Law, Legal Dogmatics
  • Qualitative Empirical Social Research

Publications

HERE is a list of all current publications

Participation in Academic Self-Governance

since 2020 Member of the “Research Data Management” working group at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research, Halle/Saale
2018 Election committee for the preparation and conduct of the Works Council election at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research, Halle/Saale
2016-2017 Initiator and member of the working group for the development of an institutionalized doctoral training program in the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research, Halle/Saale
2013-2014 Member of the “Quality Assurance in Teaching” Commission at the Faculty of History and Cultural Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin
2012-2013 Founding member of the “Faculty-wide Teaching Evaluation” working group at the Faculty of History and Cultural Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin
2009-2012 Coordinator of the interdisciplinary program committee “Mapping and Re-Mapping the Horn of Africa” and the “Ethiopian Studies Working Group” at Freie Universität Berlin
2009-2011 Founding member of the “klein & exzellent” Association at Freie Universität Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2009-2010 Foreign Commission member for the development of a curriculum for the PhD program “Peace Federalism and Human Rights” at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
2008-2009 Member of the appointment committee for the professorship in Islamic Studies with a focus on Islamic Law at Freie Universität Berlin
2008-2009 Member of the appointment committee for the junior professorship in Islamic Studies with a focus on Islam in Europe at Freie Universität Berlin
2008-2009 Member of the appointment committee for the junior professorship in Muslim Culture and Society in South Asia or Southeast Asia at Freie Universität Berlin

Offices and Memberships in Academic Associations

Active Board Work

  • Second Chairman of the Society for Arab and Islamic Law (جمعية دراسات الشريعة الإسلامية وقوانين البلاد العربية, GAIR)
  • Board member for “Conferences” at the Society for African Law / African Law Association / Association du Droit Africain

Advisory and Council Activities

  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the “Scientific Working Group Horn of Africa” (WAKHVA)
  • Advisory board member of the scientific association “Orbis Aethiopicus” (ወርስ፡ኢትዮጵያ)
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Avicenna Study Foundation

Participation in Working Groups

  • Initiator and founding director of the “Young Network for Law and Islam” (JNRS) at GAIR
  • Initiator and coordinator of the “Islamic Finance” working group at GAIR
  • Member of the German Oriental Society (DMG, Islamic Studies Section)
  • Member of the German Association for the Study of the Middle East (DAVO)

Other Memberships

  • Member of the Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD)
  • Member of the Working Group on Comparative Constitutional Law Overseas (AÜV)
  • Member of the Working Group of Young International Law Scholars (AjV)

Founding Memberships

  • Founding member of the German Islam Forum (project of the Karl Konrad and Ria Groeben Foundation)
  • Founding member of the Lawyer’s Group of Amnesty International in Hong Kong

Memberships in Working Groups of the Max-Planck-Association

Max Planck Law: Institutional alliance of interdisciplinary researchers from the Max Planck Institutes engaged in legal research, with the aim of consolidating research and teaching

Max Planck LeadNet: Association of PostDocs in leadership positions within the Max Planck Society for the purpose of exchanging experiences and furthering professional development

Activity as Expert and Reviewer

Expert:

  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ)
  • Cologne Local Court, Family Law Department
  • Local Court and Regional Court Frankfurt am Main

Reviewer:

  • Reviewer for Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (North-West University, South Africa)
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of ‘Ytiopis’: Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (Mekelle University, Ethiopia)
  • Reviewer for Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (Vienna, Austria)