Nadjma Yassari

Nadjma Yassari is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg where she heads the Department for the Laws of Islamic Countries. In April 2009, Nadjma Yassari established the Max Planck Research Group 'Changes in God's Law: An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws', which she has been leading since. Her main fields of research are national and private international law of Islamic countries, in particular the Arab...See more

Nadjma Yassari is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg where she heads the Department for the Laws of Islamic Countries. In April 2009, Nadjma Yassari established the Max Planck Research Group 'Changes in God's Law: An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws', which she has been leading since. Her main fields of research are national and private international law of Islamic countries, in particular the Arab Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan with a special focus on family and successions law. See less