Notes on Contributors

Judith Koschorke

obtained her master's degree in Arabic/Islamic Studies with a special focus on Islamic Law at Gottingen University, Germany and she is currently a research assistant at the aforementioned department.

Karen Meerschaut

graduated with a Law degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and holds a PhD in Law (Vrije Universiteit van Brussel). She is currently a legal attache at the Supreme Administrative Court of Belgium. She is equally a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in the research groups Metajuridica and Fundamental Rights & Constitutionalism (frc). Her academic work is situated in the field of law and diversity, with a clear focus on fundamental freedoms, minority rights, ques­tions of accommodation of cultural diversity, Islamic law, and the multicul­turalism-debate in legal theory. She focuses on the relation between religion and state/law (including legal pluralism), in particular in the Malaysian legal system.

Norbert Oberauer

is a Professor at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the University of Munster. His main areas of research include Islamic contract law, Islamic legal theory, pious endowments Jvaqf) and Islamic theology.

Yvonne Prief

holds a magister degree in Islamic Studies, Public Law and Political Science from the University of Munster and is working on her PhD dissertation on Muslim legal practice in the United Kingdom. She was part of the project “Legal Pluralism in Muslim Context - Conflict Regulation in Muslim Communities on the Basis of Customary and Islamic Law and its Relation to their Legal Environment”, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Ulrike Qubaja

obtained her magister degree in Islamic Studies, Political Studies and Iranian Studies at Hamburg University. She is working on her PhD dissertation on clan­based customary law in the Southern Westbank against the background of legal pluralism in Palestinian society. Her project has been funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation as part of the project “Legal Pluralism in Muslim Context - Conflict Regulation in Muslim Communities on the Basis of Customary and Islamic Law and its Relation to their Legal Environment”. From 2013 to 2017 she was a Junior Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence for Religion and Politics at the University of Munster.

Ido Shahar

is a senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Haifa. He is a legal anthropologist and a social historian, special­ising in the study of SharFa courts and of Palestinian society. He has published extensively on legal pluralism, on SharΓa courts in Israel, and on Palestinians in Israel.

Katrin Seidel

is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Law & Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, a former fellow at Kate Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (2015/16), and was the Academic Coordinator of the Joint Network Rule of Law support at Freie Universitat Berlin, in collaboration with the German Federal Foreign Office (2017). Based on her interdisciplinary background (Law and African/ Asian studies), her research is situated at the intersection of legal pluralism, heterogeneous statehood and governance. Seidel's studies are concerned with interdependent relationships between plural normative and judicial orders at different levels of regulations, and with the intertwinings of respective social actors involved. Her current research is a comparative analysis of post-conflict constitution making in South Sudan and Somaliland.

Konstantinos Tsitselikis

is a Professor in Human Rights and International Organizations at the University of Macedonia (Greece). He has taught at the Universities of Thrace and Bilgi (Istanbul). He has authored several books, studies and articles on human rights, focused on minority and migrants rights and has worked for the Council of Europe (1992-95), the OSCE, the UN and the EU (1997-1999) in human rights and democratisation field missions. He is a member of the board of the Research Centre for Minority Groups (kemo, www.kemo.gr, 1996-2014) and chairman of the Hellenic League for Human Rights (www.hlhr.gr) (2011-2017).

Vishal Vora

is a research fellow at the Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. His current re­search focuses on the maturing British Hindu community, examining the re­lationship between religion and state, in particular the community’s search for its identity in multicultural Britain. He completed his PhD in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His thesis was entitled: The Islamic Marriage Conundrum: register or recognise? The legal consequences of the nikah in England and Wales. He was Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2007 and maintains links with legal professionals, often providing expert witness reports for the courts in family law cases. Prior to his legal education and training, Vishal completed a science degree at University College London.

Werner de Saeger

graduated in theology from Harvard University; in religious studies from the University of Cambridge; in law from the University of Brussels (vub) and Hebrew University of Jerusalem; in canon law from the Catholic University of Louvain (KU Leuven); and in philosophy of law from the University of Leiden. His research focuses on Islamic law, both from a historical perspective and within its current-day context. He teaches at the University of Cambridge, pxl University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hasselt, and does research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Ihsan Yilmaz

is Research Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at Deakin University, Australia. He was professor of political science at Istanbul Fatih University between 2008 and 2016, lecturer in law at SOAS, University of London between 2001 and 2008 and research scholar at the University of Oxford be­tween 1999 and 2001. He completed his PhD at the School of Law and Social Sciences, SOAS, University of London in 1999. He has a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Bogaziςi University (1994). He is the author of (2005, reprinted in 2016) Muslim Laws, Politics and Society in Modern Nation States: Dynamic Legal Pluralisms in England, Turkey and Pakistan and has published his work in various international scholarly journals.

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