Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Institute for Advanced Study
University of Göttingen
Geismar Landstraße 11
Göttingen
37083
Germany
ABOUT
Dörthe Engelcke is an early career fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen. She received her PhD from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in 2015. She is the co-winner of the 2016 BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University. For the academic year 2014/2015, she was a visiting fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. During her PhD, Dörthe has taught Middle East Politics at Oxford and was a visiting fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. She holds an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her research focuses on the interaction of law and society in the MENA region as well as questions of gender, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. She is a member of the Max Planck research group on child law in Muslim countries.
Discipline
Law
Sub Areas
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
Modern
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Jordan
Morocco
Syria
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
German (native)
Education
DPhil
| 2015
| Oriental Studies
| University of Oxford
Abstracts
Family law reform in Morocco and Jordan - a comparative approach
Morocco’s judges club: calling for dignity and independence in the name of the king
Christian family law in Jordan: regulating legal pluralism and the challenge of reform
