Image: Protestors in Tunis demand equal inheritance rights for women, 10 March 2018.

The Tunisian reform is triggering lively debates well beyond the country’s borders due to the sensitivity of one of the points addressed: gender equality.  Professor Hamrouni, a Tunisian legal scholar involved in the reform, will illustrate both process and content, and will be joined by some of the leading experts in Europe on inheritance and family law reforms to discuss its various aspects.

SPEAKERS:

• Salwa Hamrouni: Professor of Law at the University of Tunis. She lectures on human rights, international institutions and the international protection of human rights, and is an expert on civic education.
• Roberta Aluffi: Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Turin, where she also teaches Islamic Law and African Law.
• Dr Dörthe Engelcke: Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Her dissertation on family law reform in Jordan and Morocco was co-winner of the 2016 BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University.
• Nadjma Yassari: Leader of the Research Group: Changes in God’s Law – An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

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