Curriculum Vitae
The following is an abridged version of Professor Foblets's vita.
Education
1990
Ph.D in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven
1985
Master degree: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven
1984
Master degree: Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven
1982
Master degree: Law, Catholic University of Leuven
1979
Bachelor degree: Philosophy, University of Antwerp
1979
Bachelor degree: Law, University of Antwerp
Academic Positions
April 2021 - present
Honorary Professor of Anthropology, University Leipzig, Germany
June 2014 – present
Honorary Professor of Law & Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2012 - present
Honorary Professor of Law & Anthropology, Law Faculty, Catholic University of Leuven
March 2012 – present
Director of the Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
February 2008 – March 2012
Full time professor at the Law Faculty, Catholic University of Leuven, Chair of the Institute for Migration Law and Legal Anthropology; Member of the Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies & Research Group Human Rights & International Justice
September – December 2009
Erasmus lectureship (Harvard Law School): ‘Comparative Islamic Law’
March 1998 – August 2003
Head of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven
October 2003
Promoted ‘Gewoon Hoogleraar’ (ordinarius)
October 1998
Promoted ‘Hoogleraar’
October 1995 – January 2008
Professor of Law and Anthropology (with tenure), Faculty of Law & Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven
October 1993 – September 1995
Associate Professor of Legal Anthropology, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Leuven
October 1993 – October 1996
Teaching Associate (Legal Anthropology), Laboratoire d’anthropologie juridique de Paris, Université Paris I/Sorbonne
April – June 1994
Visiting Scholar (Boalt Hall, Law School Berkeley, California)
October 1992 – 2008
Professor of Anthropology (Social & Cultural), Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Catholic University of Brussels (10% position)
October 1991 – March 2012
Professor of Anthropology (Social & Cultural), Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Antwerp (10% position)
October 1990 – September 1995
Post-doctoral fellowship, National Foundation for Scientific Research & Assistant Head, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven
September 1986 – June 1994
Advocate Member of the Brussels bar (Orde français des avocats du barreau de Bruxelles)
October 1985 – September 1990
Research assistant, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven
Grants / Honors
25 January 2019
Awarded “Dr. honoris Causa”, (Law Faculty, Uppsala)
29 September 2016
Awarded “Dr. honoris Causa”, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels
13 February 2015
Full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
11 December 2013
Awarded best FP7 research project and accomplishment in the humanities; celebration honouring the university’s FP7 researchers and their accomplishments and launch of Horizon 2020, KU Leuven & EU Commission (DG Research)
16 November 2013
Nominee of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts for the 2014 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Fall 2009
Erasmus lectureship (Harvard/Boston) on the History and the Civilization of Flanders, Scholar elected 2009
July 2006
Research Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation & German Marshall Fund Foundation (Special Program on Migration & Integration Policies)
2004
Winner of the Francqui Price (Human Sciences)
Membership in Professional Associations
Member of the Board
2015 – 2020
Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Advisory Board), University Duisburg-Essen
2012 – 2020
REMEP – International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment
2011 – present
Laboratorio Diritti Fundamentali (Academy of Sciences Turin, Italy)
President: Vladimiro Zagrebelski, former Italian judge at the Court of Human Rights in Strabourg
2011 – present
Leuven Institute for Human Rights and Critical Studies
2008 – 2013
UCSIA (Universitair Centrum Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen), Representative for the KU Leuven
2006 – present
Leuven Research Group Human Rights & International Justice
June 1997 – present
Vereniging voor de Bestudering van het Recht van de Islam en het Midden-Oosten (Association for the Study of Islamic law and the Law in the Middle East; Faculties of Law of Leiden, Maastricht and Utrecht), Elected Co-President: June 2002 to 2018 (President: Prof. Dr. R. Peeters, Amsterdam)
December 1993 – present
Commission on Legal Pluralism
International Board Memberships
2013 – 2017
Advisory Board of the ERC starting grant research project: Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe: Examining Grassroots Mobilisations in Europe in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedom Jurisprudence (Effie Fokas, Athens)
2012 – 2015
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Review Panel for the panel SH – Environment, space and population in the Advanced Grant 2014 evaluation
Convenor of Conferences and Workshops
November – December 2018
“Oxford Handbook Law & Anthropology” jointly with Brian Donahoe, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, Larissa Vetters, Olaf Zenker, MPI for Social Anthropology, Department Law & Anthropology, Halle, 30 November – 2 December 2018
November 2018
“Law, Islam and Anthropology” jointly with Hatem Elliesie, Irene Schneider (German Association for the Study of Islamic Law), Susan Rutten (Vereniging voor de Studie van Islam en Recht in het Midden-Oosten), MPI for Social Anthropology, Department Law & Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 9-10 November 2018
June 2017
“(Re)designing Justice for Plural Societies” jointly with Katayoun Alidadi and Dominik Müller, MPI for Social Anthropology, Department Law & Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 14-16 June 2017
January 2015
“Cultural Diversity and Judiciary Practice” jointly with Ria Mortier, Geert Vervaeke, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), Brussels, Belgium, 26 – 27 January 2015
January 2015
“Religious Pluralism and Secularism in Europe”, jointly with Burkhard Hess, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 16 January 2015
May 2014
“(Not) Outside My Culture: The paradoxes of personal autonomy in a plural society”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Department Law & Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 26 – 28 May 2014
December 2012
RELIGARE final conference ‘Secularism and Religious Pluralism in Europe’, Brussels and Leuven, Belgium, 4-5 December 2012
October 2012
Exploratory workshop on ‘Law & Religion’, MPI for Social Anthropology, Department Law & Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 4-6 October 2012
September 2012
Exploratory workshops on ‘Applied legal anthropology’ and ‘Comparing legal cultures’, MPI for Social Anthropology, Department Law & Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 12-14 September 2012
September 2012
Workshop (II) on Family Law (RELIGARE research project), QMUL, London, UK, 4-5 September 2012
June 2012
“State support to religions and non-faith-based organisations” (RELIGARE expert meeting), Université de Strasbourg/European Parliament, Strasbourg, Belgium, 27-29 June 2012
June 2012
Expert meeting with EU officials on “Religious discrimination”, CEPS, Brussels, Belgium, 5 June 2012
May 2012
First and second exploratory meeting, MPI for Social Anthropology, Department Law & Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 23-25 May 2012
Presentation at Conferences and Workshops (Last Update December 2019)
November 2019
"Integration mittels Recht?" Plädoyer für Konsistenz, Transparenz und Einfühlung, Tagung „Integratives Recht“, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany, 21-22 November 2019
November 2019
“Diaspora Communities: an opportunity for the future of the law” at the conference Diaspora and Law: Culture, Religion, and Jurisprudence beyond Sovereignty, Selma-Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin, Germany, 17-20 November 2019
November 2019
"Workshop Law and the Humanities" with Sabine Frerichs, Samer Ghamroun, Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Asem Khalil, Oday Talal Mahmood, Amr Shalakany at the International AGYA Conference: The Place of Humanities in Research, Education and Society: An Arab-German Dialogue, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), Berlin, Germany, 10 November 2019
October 2019
“Mein Körper gehört mir nicht.” Verstoßen (Gemeinschafts)Kulturen gegen das Recht?, Interdisziplinäre Tagung “Interkulturalität und Religion in der Medizin”, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Medizin-Ethik-Recht, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, 25-26 October 2019
October 2019
“Islam in Europe: is 'Freedom of religion' the appropriate approach?”, conference on Islam, Globalization, Europeanization – legal perspectives, Law faculty of the University of Copenhagen City, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 October 2019
September 2019
"Islamic Family Law in Europe and the Islamic World" at the international symposium “The Reform of Islamic family law in the Islamic world”, Universität Tübingen, Zentrum für Islamische Theologie, Hannover, Germany, 24-26 September 2019
September 2019
"Die Herausforderungen von Migration, Integration und Exklusion" at the workshop “Anschließen/Ausschließen“, Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften und Moderneforschung und Abteilung Chinastudien des Ostasiatischen Seminars der Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany, 13-14 September 2019
June 2019
“Wir heiraten, (aber) nicht nur einander”, Ethnologische Forschung zu Hochzeitskulturen, Hochzeitskulturen in Europa, Halle, Germany, organised by Rüdiger Fikentscher, 29 June 2019
May 2019
"Introduzione" jointly with Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, Nuove forme di filiazione e genitorialità/New parenthood and childhood patterns. Principles and praxes in Muslim realities; Laboratorio dei Diritti Fondamentali and Collegio Carlo Alberto; Torino, Italy; 10-11 May 2019
April 2019
“Migration and the encounter of cultures in an ever more inter-connected world. The end of the Rule-of-Law?” at the symposium "Normative Kriterien der Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten in Deutschland", Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany, 12 April 2019
March 2019
“Freedom of Religion and Belief versus Freedom of Movement in Europe. Balancing between incommensurable agendas” at "Norden meets Europe. Protestant Legacies in Nordic Law: Uses of the Past in the Construction of Secularity of Law", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 22 March 2019
March 2019
"Grundlagenforschung zu Streitregulierung(en) in Deutschlands pluralistischer Gesellschaft" jointly with Hatem Elliesie at the conference "Recht ohne Gesetz, Justiz ohne Richter - die Welt der Schattenjustiz", Deutsche Richterakademie, Trier, Germany, 14 March 2019
February 2019
“Cultural Diversity in the Courtroom. Report on the seminar 11-12 November 2018 in Wiesbaden, Germany” jointly with Bojana Jovin Hrastnik at the transnational group meeting, EJTN Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Florence, Italy, 21-22 February 2019
January 2019
“Bridging common dichotomies in socio-legal research” jointly with Susanne Baer, Philipp Dann and Julia Eckert at the Public Panel Discussion “Conducting, structuring and analysing socio-legal data”, Socio-Legal Lab, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 18 January 2019
November 2018
Conference ”The Family, Human Rights and Internationalism. Global Historical-Sociological Perspectives”, Chair of panel “Women’s Rights, Sexuality and Human Rights”, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, 2 November 2018
November 2018
“Criminal law in a changing world – what are the appropriate responses?”, REMEP Autumn Retreat, International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment, Berlin, Germany, 01 November 2018
October 2018
Presentation oft he project „Konfliktregulierung in Deutschlands pluraler Gesellschaft”,
MPI for Foreign and International Criminal Law, MPI for Social Anthropology, Berlin, Germany, 25-26 October 2018
October 2018
Moderation of the panel discussion „Deutsch-Japanisch Türkisches Rechtssymposium. Rechtsstaat und Strafrecht. Anforderungen und Anfechtungen“, panel title „Internationale Standards für ein rechtsstaatliches Strafrecht und Strafverfahren“, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and Türk Alman Üniversitesi, Halle, Germany, 12 October 2018
September 2018
“Critical Review of papers” at the conference “Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen. 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie“, University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 26 September 2018
September 2018
“On Islamic Family Law in Europe: Questions, Insights and Challenges”, keynote speaker at the conference “Transnational Muslim Marriages: Wellbeing, Law, and Gender”, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 7 September 2018
September 2018
„Religionsfreiheit heute in Europa – kostbarer denn je“ at the interdisciplinary workshop „Hat religiöses Recht eine Existenzberechtigung in säkularer Gesellschaft?“, München, Germany, 3-4 September 2018
August 2018
“Human Rights are not a Panacea: Protection Gaps in European Migration Law” at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-17 August 2018
July 2018
„Konfliktregulierung in Deutschlands pluraler Gesellschaft“ jointly with Hatem Elliesie at the workshop Austausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis zu „Paralleljustiz“, organised by Marie-Claire Foblets, Hatem Elliesie, Senatsverwaltung für Justiz, Verbraucherschutz und Antidiskriminierung, Kriminalgericht Moabit, Berlin, Germany, 10 July 2018
June 2018
“Europe’s inability to address the challenge of humanitarian migration” at the symposium of the Human Sciences Section “Social Fragmentation” of the Max Planck Society , Heidelberg, Germany, 13 June 2018
June 2018
“Is the EU ready for the Demographic Turn?” jointly with: Brian Campbell at the Population Conference 2018, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 6 June 2018
May 2018
“The male circumcision in Germany” at “Justice & Culture. Legal techniques and arguments to deal with multicultural conflicts”, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Cagliari, Italy, 11-12 May 2018
May 2018
“Recognition of others has always been a stabilizing factor in social relations. Can it be achieved through hospitality to migrants?” at the symposium Controls and Hospitality. Towards Migration Policies which Strengthen Contemporary Democracy, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 4 May 2018
April 2018
“Secular Versus Religious Pluralism in Europe: The Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence” at the second international interdisciplinary conference “The Impact of Religion. Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 24-26 April 2018
March 2018
„Grundlagenforschung zur Streitregulierung(en) in Deutschlands pluralistischer Gesellschaft“ jointly with Hatem Elliesie at „Recht ohne Gesetz, Justiz ohne Richter - die Welt der Schattenjustiz“, Deutsche Richterakademie, Trier, Germany, 8 March 2018
November 2017
„Vorstellung des Gesamtprojekts zur Streitregulierung“ jointly with Hatem Elliesie at the conference „Streitregulierung in Deutschlands pluraler Gesellschaft“, MPI für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Freiburg, Germany, 29-30 November 2017
November 2017
„Kulturelle Konfliktregulierung mit rechtlicher Relevanz in Deutschland" jointly with Hatem Elliesie at the ZIRS-Tag, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien, Halle, Germany, 21 November 2017
October 2017
„L’Union Européenne: les droits de l’homme otage(s) d’un espace juridique transnational inachevé ?” conférence annuelle 2017 - L’énigme de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés : Le choc des droits et des valeurs dans la mosaïque culturelle canadienne. La diversité culturelle et religieuse dans l’administration de la justice, Canada, 4-6 October 2017
September 2017
“In the name of Human Rights! Tensions between freedom of religion and freedom from religion” at the Fifth Interdisciplinary Religion and Society Research Directors Colloquium: Rethinking Theoretical and Methodological Approaches in the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion – Society Intersections, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 4-6 September 2017
May 2017
“Dealing with intercultural factors in the courtroom” (keynote) at the EAPL Conference, KU Leuven, Faculty of Law, Mechelen, Belgium, May 2017
March 2017
Comment on the Panel and Discussion at the conference “Law, Legal Language and Ideas of Justice in Poland: On the Consequences of Socio-Political Upheaval from the 18th to the 21st Century”, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, 16 March 2017
February 2017
L’anthropologie juridique: l’avenir de la discipline en Europe at the Colloque Droit et Anthropologie. Archéologie d’un savoir et enjeux contemporains, Carcassonne, France, 27-28 February 2017
December 2016
“ Opening and Closing Remarks to the Conference” at the conference “ Moroccan nationals living in Europe and the application of the Moroccan Family Code: looking (10 years) back and forward”, Brussels, Belgium, 2 December 2016
November 2016
„Komplementäre Streitbeilegung mit kultureller Konnotation in Deutschland: Vorstellung eines Forschungsvorhabens“ with Larissa Vetters and Hatem Elliesie at the conference „Recht ohne Grenzen, Justiz ohne Richter - die Welt der Schattenjustiz", Wustrau, Germany, 08-10 November 2016
October 2016
Discussant in final roundtable with Christa Rautenbach and Irene Schneider at “Legal Pluralism”, Göttingen, Germany, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Göttingen, 28-29 October 2016
October 2016
Keynote Nieuwe rechtsculturen. Justitie en culturele diversiteit at the conference "Justitie bekent kleur", Mechelen, Belgium, 20 October 2016
October 2016
“Europe Faced with New Forms of Religious Pluralism. Some paradoxical effects of the protection of freedom of religion” at the workshop “Plurality of Norms”, MPI for the History of Science Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 19 October 2016
October 2016
“Religious Legal Pluralism in Europe: A Call for a Critical Assessment (Public Evening Lecture)” at the conference “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Pluralism in Muslim Context”, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, 06 October 2016
September 2016
“Women and Religion: Islamic family laws in Europe and the constraints of human rights standards of protection”jointly with Amal Idrissi at the 4th ICLARS Conference “Freedom of/for/from/within Religion: Differing, Dimensions of a Common Right?”, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS)Oxford, United Kingdom, 8-11 September 2016
July 2016
Chair of panel discussion at the symposium “Terrorismus und Kriminalpolitik“ on the occasion of the 50th anniversary event of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, MPI für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany, 1-2 July 2016
June 2016
Panel "Flux migrateurs et identités nationales : perspectives théoriques" jointly with Marie Bourry (Présidente de séance), Catherine Wihtol de Wenden and Eve Shashahani at rhe conference "Les Journées Strasbourgeoises 2016", Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies/Institut canadien d’études juridiques supérieures , Strasbourg, France, 30 June 2016
June 2016
„Körper, Recht und Kultur. Eine innige Beziehung“ at the conference „Gemeinschaftskulturen in Europa“, Kulturforum der Sozialdemokratie Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. in Zusammenarbeit mit dem SPD-Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt Halle, Germany, 18 June 2016
April 2016
“Religious Pluralism, Legal Monism and Personal Law Regimes: Comparing Experiences and Trends” at the international workshop “Religious Pluralism, Legal Monism and Personal Law Regimes: Comparing Experiences and Trends”, University of Trento, Faculty of Law; Jurisdiction and Pluralisms, Trento, Italy, 29-30 April 2016
April 2016
“The European Union as an incomplete ‘transnational space’” jointly with Katayoun Alidadi at the workshop “ Landscapes of law: Trade, Security and Transnational Ethnography”, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton, USA, 8 April 2016
April 2016
"La mise en œuvre du code de la famille de 2004. Quels changements au Maroc et chez les Marocaines et les Marocains résidant à l’étranger?" jointly with Malika Benradi at the conference "Droit de la famille et droit des successions en Afrique du Nord (Algérie, Maroc, Mauritanie, Tunisie)", Centre Jacques Berque en partenariat avec le «Pôle Gouvernance de l’Ambassade de France au Maroc», la fondation Friedrich Ebert et la Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (Yazid Ben Hounet), Rabat, Morocco, 5-6 April 2016
March 2016
"Interculturalité : opportunité pour l'état de droit démocratique /Interculturaliteit: een kans voor de democratische rechtstaat" at the conference "Quelle interculturalité pour l’Europe ?/Welke interculturaliteit voor Europa?", Académies des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 10 March 2016
January 2016
"Comment parler de la religion?" (panel) jointly with Guy Haarscher and François De Smet at the conference "La Religion dans la Cité", Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Le Soir, Flagey, Brussels, Belgium, 29-30 January 2016
December 2015
Discussant at the conference "France-Allemagne: regards croisés sur l’intégration. Journée d’étude organisée dans le cadre de la mission France-Allemagne (France Stratégie)" jointly with Christine Langenfeld and Patrick Weil, organised by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer et Jean-Marc Ayraul, Paris, France, 11 December 2015
December 2015
"Ordre public et droit musulman: quelles applications dans le droit interne des pays européens?" at the conference El orden public interno, europeo e internacional en el ámbito civil, Universitat Pompeu Barcelona, Spain, 10 December 2015
December 2015
“Workshop on research methods and design for transnational comparable results - Crosscultural perspectives” jointly with Lori Beamanand Anders Sjöborg at “The Fourth Interdisciplinary Religion and Society Research Directors Colloquium”, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 6-8 December 2015
November 2015
Plenary Session “Religion, Religious Freedom and Economic Development in contemporary Europe” jointly with Tahir Mahmood, Faizan Mustafa, Pasquale Ferrara and Katrina Lantos Swett at the G20 Interfaith Summit, organised by the International Consortium for Law and Religious Studies (ICLARS) in collaboration with Brigham Young University Istanbul, Turkey, 16-18 November 2015
October 2015
"Agency, Autonomy and Pluralism. The Regulation of Family Life at the Interplay of Law, Religion and Culture" at the international conference “Legal Pluralism and Human Rights within Family Disputes in Europe”, organised by the Belgian Science Policy Office, Human Rights Centre/Ghent University, Universiteit Gent, in collaboration with Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ghent, Belgium, 26-27 October 2015
October 2015
“Gender, Islam and Family Law in Europe: Human rights and their darker side“ at the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht, Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht, Göttingen, Germany, 24 October 2015
October 2015
“Comparing the Un-Comparable in Law – A curse? (Critical reflections on the prerequisites of comparison)” jointly with Franz Werro, Alain Wijffels, Bin Li and Constance Grewe at the conference “Comparing Comparative Law”, University of Fribourg/Swiss Institute for Comparative Law, Fribourg, Switzerland, 23 October 2015
October 2015
Reply to Catherine Xhardez “Parcours d’integration civique : vers une ‘citoyennisation’ obligée?" at the workshop “Citoyenneté, civisme, civilité”, Réseau « Interdisciplinarité et Société », Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, City, Brussels, Belgium, 14 October 2015
October 2015
“The Principle of Personal Autonomy: the manifold difficulties of guaranteeing individual selfdetermination in a Plural Society” at the conference “Il Multiculturalismo e le Corti”, Corte di Cassazione, Rome, Italy, 2-3 October 2015
October 2015
"La diversité culturelle et les droits de l’homme dans les pays ACP et de l’Union Européenne", discussant at the conference «Assemblée Parlementaire Paritaire ACP-UE, European Commission (Commission des Affaires Publiques), Brussels, Belgium, 1-2 October 2015
October 2015
“Kinship: Public Perceptions and Legal Definitions. How to bridge the gap?” at the workshop “The judiciary in Europe in the face of alternative conceptions of kinship”, Oñati, Spain, 17-18 September 2015
July 2015
“Panel: International Courts and Global Cooperation - The Rulings of the ECHR: Lessons for the Concept of Universality” jointly with Markus Böckenförde (moderation), Thilo Marauhn and Angelika Nussberger at the midterm conference “Global Cooperation: Can we build on it? Findings and perspectives.” , Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Germany, 2 July 2015
June 2015
“Freedom of Religion in Europe: Finding the golden mean between too little and too much protection” at the conference “Governance of Religious Diversity: More or Less Secularism?”, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, 10-12 June 2015
June 2015
“Intercultural communication in the courtroom: Is there need for training of judges in Europe?” at the conference “ General Assembly of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ)/Réseau européen des Conseils de la Justice (RECJ)”, ENCJ in collaboration with EJTN (European Judicial Training Network), The Hague, Netherlands, 5 June 2015
May 2015
Panel “Freedom of Religion and Belief” jointly with Cole Durham Jr., Lorenzo Zucca, Peter Petkoff, Marco Ventura and Ronan McCrea at the conference “Religiowest – Preparatory conference towards the final report”, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, 25-26 May 2015
April 2015
"Dix ans d’application du Code marocain de la famille (2004-2014)" at the conference "Unité de Droits Fondamentaux et Droit International Privé", Faculté de Droit Tunis (Jemia El Mounia), Tunisia, 10-11 April 2015
December 2014
Panel "La qualification du statut de réfugié ONU" jointly with Ruben Wissing, Jean-François Durieux and Dirk van den Bulck at the conference "EDEM Colloque: La Seconde Génération du Seca en Droit Belge: Le Temps des Juges", organised by Fonds européen pour les réfugiés and Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 04-05 December 2014
November 2014
“A Plea for Accommodation of Diversity within the State Legal Framework” at the annual international conference of the cluster of excellence “Normative Ordnungen im Wandel: Globale Herausforderungen”, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 20-21 November 2014
October 2014
“Courts and Judges: The Role of Jurisdiction in the Future of Law, Religion and Politics”, chair of the session and discussant at the conference “Judging Faiths: Religious Freedom at the Bar in U.S. and European Courts”, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 23-24 October 2014
September 2014
“A Fair Treatment of Religious Diversity in Europe” at the workshop ”Visions in Science”, Doktorandennetzwerk der MPG, Berlin, Germany, 18-20 September 2014
September 2014
“Religious Pluralism in Western Europe” at the International Conference Legal Pluralism, Law Faculty Torino,Torino, Italy, 11-13 September 2014
July 2014
“Migration and Law” jointly wit: Jean-Yves Carlier at the XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law, organised by the Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law (IACPIL) in cooperation with University of Vienna, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law and Pan European, Vienna, Austria, 20-26 July 2014
April 2014
“Observing Legal Cultures” at the conference “The Normative Complex. Legal Cultures, Validity Cultures, Normativities”, Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”, Bonn, Germany, 9-10 April 2014
October 2013
Conclusions at the conference “Journée d’étude: Loi et pratique en DIP familial”, University of Gent in cooperation with Gandaius, MPI for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale und KU Leuven, University of Gent, 14 October 2013
October 2013
“Private International Law in Europe Seen through the Reception of the Moroccan Family Law Code (2004-2014)”, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V., Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz, 11-12 October 2013
September 2013
“European Normativity – Global Historical Perspective. Colloquium on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the New Building of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History” Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2 – 4 September 2013
August 2013
“Transnational family situations in Europe seen through the lens of the Moroccan Family Law code” at the conference “Family Law and Culture in Europe: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities”, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Bonn, Germany, 29-31 August 2013
June 2013
“Forward look plenary discussion” jointly with Léon Buskens and Mulki Al-Sharmani at “Islamic family law in modern Europe and the Muslim world. Normative, legal and empirical approaches beyond the women’s rights issue”, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 19-21 June 2013
June 2013
“The Challenges of Codification in a Changing Europe: Critical reflections based on some of the main findings of the RELIGARE (FP7) Project” at “Common European Sales Law Meets Reality – a European Debate on the Commission’s Proposal” , Martin Luther University, Halle/Saale, Germany, 14-15 June 2013
June 2013
“The Challenges of Religious Pluralism in a Changing Europe: Draft summary of the main findings of the RELIGARE project” at “Recht und Religion in soziologischer Perspektive”, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Bonn, Germany, 6-7 June 2013
June 2013
“Civil law codifications as symbols of national sovereignty” at “Common European sales law meets reality”, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Law, Halle/Saale, Germany, 14-15 June 2013
May 2013
“The body as identity marker. Circumcision of boys: Faith-based and cultural versus medical concerns” at the symposium “Families, Faith and Functions: The Child in the Intersections between Family, Society and Culture”, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 22-23 May 2013
May 2013
“The Impact of religion: Challenges for society, law and democracy”, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 20-22 May 2013
March 2013
L’interculturalisme: perspectives québécoises et européennes jointly with Gérard Bouchard (conférencier) / Marie-Claire Foblets (répondante) at Les identités juridiques et culturelles Nord-Américaines et comparées, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 21 March 2013
November 2012
“EU, Equality Summit “Equality for Growth” jointly with Katayoun Alidadi, Cyprus, 22-23 November 2012
June 2012
“Promoting integration of anthropological research and legal practice in continental Europe: what lessons can be drawn from the English-speaking world?” at “Anthropology in the world”, British Museum, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK, 8-10 June 2012
April 2012
Discussion on the methodology at the workshop RELIGARE, SOAS London, London, UK, 20-21 April 2012
Presentations at conferences and workshops at the MPI (Last Update December 2019)
May 2019
“Forced Migration, Exclusion, and Social Class” (Introduction) jointly with Günther Schlee, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, 23-24 May 2019
February 2019
CUREDI Meeting “Sharing experiences with other legal databases and socio-legal web-platforms, organised by: Marie-Claire Foblets, Eugenia Relaño Pastor, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, 11 February 2019
November 2018
“Working on case-law templates” (Introduction and concrete illustration, final discussion) jointly with Eugenia Relaño Pastor at the CUREDI Workshop: Mapping cultural and religious diversity in domestic jurisdictions: exploring how to fill in case-law templates, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, 20-21 November 2018
July 2018
“How to relate national correspondents to thematic correspondents?” (Presentation of the metholodogy) at the workshop on CUREDI Database: Presentation and Methodology, 12-13 July 2018
May 2018
“Humanitarian Visas and the External Dimensions of the EU Migration and Asylum Policy (Introduction) at “Humanitarian Visas and the External Dimensions of the EU Migration and Asylum Policy”, organised by Marie-Claire Foblets, Luc Leboeuf, Winfried Kluth and Dirk Hanschel, 17-18 May 2018
October 2019
“The CUREDI database launched by the Department of Law & Anthropology; first outcomes and steps ahead” (Introduction & chair of the general discussion) jointly with Eugenia Relaño Pastor, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, 28-29 October 2019
June 2016
“Introductory and Concluding Comments to the Conference” at “Anthropological Expertise in Legal Practice”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, 22-23 June 2016
September 2015
Workshop “Law and Anthropology: Complementaries and Contradictions”, organised by the International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment Bad Hersfeld, Germany, 11-16 September 2015
September 2015
“Cultural diversity and legal protection: present and future challenges within the domestic legal order of European countries” at the workshop “Diversidad cultural y protección juridical: Primer encuentro peruano-alemán”, organised by: the Department “Law & Anthropology” in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main, Halle/Saale, Germany, 2 September 2015
June 2015
“The Round Tables on Interculturalism in Belgium: a successful or unsuccessful experiment in deliberative democracy?” at the conference “Religious and Cultural Diversity in Four National Contexts”, Department “Law & Anthropology”, Halle/Saale, Germany, 26-27 June 2015
June 2015
“Introductory and Concluding Comments to the Conference” jointly with Solange Lefèbvre at the conference “Religious and Cultural Diversity in Four National Contexts Institution", Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology”, Halle/Saale, Germany, 26-27 June 2015
December 2014
“How Can Law Contribute to ‘Surviving Genocide’?” at the conference “Surviving Genocide: On what remains and the possibility of representation”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, 10-13 December 2014
May 2014
“Welcome Address, Introduction and Concluding Remarks to the Conference” at the conference “(Not) Outside My Culture: The paradoxes of personal autonomy in a plural society”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, 26-28 May 2014
May 2013
Welcome and Introduction at the Second Exploratory Meeting – Department ‘Law & Anthropology’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology”, Halle/Saale, Germany, 23-25 May 2013
November 2012
Conclusions at the conference ‘Temporalities of Law’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology”, Halle/Saale, Germany, 29-30 November 2012
Teaching (including visiting lectureships)
September 2021 to February 2022
Law and Anthropology at MLU Halle-Wittenberg and MPI for Social Anthropology, jointly with Armin Höland
February to July 2021
Interdisciplinary Study of Law: “Law and Anthropology” at KU Leuven ((optional class, around 100 students, 32 hours, offered at Master level)
April 2021
‘Recht in de multiculturele samenleving’ at University of Hasselt, jointly with Law Faculty of Maastricht University
April 2020
‘Recht in de multiculturele samenleving’ at University of Hasselt, jointly with Law Faculty of Maastricht University
10 December 2019
‘Droit et anthropologie’ at Faculté de Droit, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, Journées de formation à la recherche interdisciplinaire (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
25 November 2019
‘Recht in de multiculturele samenleving’ at University of Hasselt, jointly with Law Faculty of Maastricht University
6 - 8 November 2019
Bringing Diversity into the Courtroom – anthropological tools and ‘judgecraft’ in the Courtroom – Judges in Europe Facing New Challenges (jointly with the European Judicial Training Network, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
21 – 23 October 2019
‘Law & the Other: Comparative law, private international law and Anthropology’, Master Class Max Planck Law, Berlin (Germany), with Prof. Ralf Michaels
23 January 2019
‘Judicial practice in contemporary European plural societies: introduction to the Curedi database project’, workshop convened by Uppsala Law Faculty (Sweden)
15 - 16 January 2019
‘Legal Anthropology. Accommodation of Diversity in Contemporary Societies’ at LLM European Master of Legal Theory (University of Frankfurt)
26 November 2018
‘Recht in de multiculturele samenleving’ at University of Hasselt, jointly with Law Faculty of Maastricht University (Bachelor program)
12 - 13 November 2018
Bringing Diversity into the Courtroom – anthropological tools and ‘judgecraft’ in the Courtroom – Judges in Europe Facing New Challenges (jointly with the European Judicial Training Network; Wiesbaden, Germany)
23 - 24 April 2018
‘The Impact of Religion’, at Law Faculty Uppsala University (Sweden)
16 April 2018
‘Recht in de multiculturele samenleving’ at University of Hasselt, jointly with Law Faculty of Maastricht University (Bachelor program)
February to July 2018
Interdisciplinary Study of Law: “Law and Anthropology” at KU Leuven (optional class, around 100 students, 32 hours, offered at Master level)
5 February 2018
‘Recht in de multiculturele samenleving’ at University of Hasselt, jointly with Law Faculty of Maastricht University
22 - 23 January 2018
‘Legal Anthropology. Accommodation of Diversity in Contemporary Societies’ at LLM European Master of Legal Theory (University of Frankfurt)
2 October 2017
L'intérêt de la recherche ethnographique pour la décision en droit (Faculté de Droit, Université de Montréal, Canada)
20 June 2017
« L’Europe, une construction juridique dépassée face aux défis de la nouvelle société plurielle? » (Ecole d’été, Pratiques et politiques en contexte interculturel ; Laboratoire de recherche en relations interculturelles, Montréal, Canada)
18 April 2017
Cours Droit et migrations/Droit international privé et droits fondamentaux (Université Catholique Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
26 - 30 March 2017
State Law and its Limits (IV) at Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, jointly with Armin Höland and Dirk Hanschel
25 - 29 September 2016
State Law and its Limits (III) at Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, jointly with Armin Höland and Dirk Hanschel
May to July 2016
Law and Anthropology at MLU Halle-Wittenberg and MPI for Social Anthropology, jointly with Armin Höland
7-10 March 2016
State Law and its Limits (II) at Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, jointly with Armin Höland and Dirk Hanschel
27 - 28 January 2016
‘Legal Anthropology. Accommodation of Diversity in Contemporary Societies’ at University of Frankfurt
20 - 25 September 2015
State Law and its Limits (I) at Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, jointly with Armin Höland and Dirk Hanschel
17 - 18 February 2015
Cultural and Gender Studies of Law / Legal Anthropology /Accommodation of Diversity in Contemporary Societies at University of Frankfurt
21 - 22 October 2014
Legal Anthropology in a Contemporary Context at European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, Italy)
January 2012 to June 2014
‘Grondslagen van het recht’ (Jurispudence) (Bachelor program; 600 students) and Vreemdelingenrecht (Migration Law) at Law Faculty, KU Leuven (Master Program)
September 2012 to January 2013
‘Grondslagen van het recht’ (Jurisprudence) at Law Faculty, KU Leuven (Bachelor program; 600 students)
June 2011
University of Palermo, European Academy of Legal Theory, Intensive Courses Program
September to December 2009
‘Comparative Islamic Law’ at Harvard Law School, Cambridge/Boston, (LL. M. program 2009-2010)
September 2009
Law Faculty, Université de Montréal, doctoral seminar
September 2009
Law Faculty, University of Ottawa, expert seminar
August 2009
Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law, Center for Studies and Research, Programme 2009 (topic: “Cultural Diversity”)
September 2008
Law Faculty, University of Cape Town (Middle Campus), expert seminar
2007-2008
Faculté de Droit Rabat/Agdal, doctoral seminar
November 2006
University of Toronto, doctoral seminar
November 2006
Max Planck Institute (Halle & Berlin), expert seminar
October 2006
Faculty of Law, Oslo, Center for Human Rights, expert seminar
Fall 2006
Law Faculty Zürich, master class (upon invitation of Prof. Shalini Randeria)
July 2005 & July 2006
Université Lyon III, Ecole doctorale, doctoral Summer School
April 2005
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Zaragoza, doctoral seminar
September 2004
Faculté de droit Tunis, Ecole doctorale, doctoral seminar
July 2003
Université Lyon III, Ecole doctorale, doctoral seminar
September 2002
Universiteit Maastricht (the Netherlands), doctoral seminar
November 2001
Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands), doctoral seminar
January 2000 & 2001
International Institute of Sociology of Law (I.I.S.L.), Oñati (Spain) (Master’s programme) Master class in Legal Anthropology
October 1997
Master’s programme in ‘Human Rights and Democratization’ (Faculties of Law of Padua, Leuven, Bochum, Maastricht, Essex, Coimbra, Strasbourg, Deusto, Dublin & Abo-Turku)
October 1996 & 1997
Vaucresson (France) – Formation de la magistrature française
January 1996 to 2000
European Academy of Legal Theory/Académie européenne de théorie du droit (Brussels), seminar in ‘Legal Anthropology’
January 1996
Faculty of Law, Pretoria (Unisa), Center for Jurisprudence, doctoral seminar
Academic year 1995 – 1996
Appointed to the ‘Jacques Leclercq’ Chair at the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve
December 1994
Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam – Faculty of Law, doctoral seminar
April 1994
The University of California at Berkeley, Center for Western European Studies [Boalt Hall]
1993 to 1996
Teaching Associate at the Université Paris I/Sorbonne [Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Juridique de Paris (L.A.J.P.)]
Languages
French (mother tongue)
Dutch (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
German (fluent)
Italian (passive knowledge)