Chairholder
Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h. c. Mathias Rohe,
M.A., RiOLG a. D.
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Key Areas of Academic Work:
- Legal status of Islam in Germany and Europe and its development in an European context
- Islamic law, especially its development in present day
- Multicultural conflicts and intercultural communication
- German and international banking and credit security law
- Legal position concerning complex contractual relationships
- German and international liability law
Publications
List of Publications (PDF Download)
Memberships and positions held:
- Academic
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, since 2018
- Founding director of the FAU Erlangen Center for Islam and the Law in Europe (EZIRE)
- Director of the Research Center for Religious Diversity
- Vice-President of the board of trustees of the Near and Middle East Association (NuMOV – Nah- und Mittelostverein)
- Consultative Commitee of the Department ‘Law and Anthropology’ at Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology Halle
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Avicenna Foundation
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Forum Islamic-Theological Studies
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Documentation Center for Religious reasoned Extremism (Political Islam), Federal Government, Vienna
- Co-founder, and from 2001-2009 President and until 2023 board member of the Society for Arabic and Islamic Law (GAIR – Gesellschaft für arabisches und islamisches Recht )
- Board of trustees of the Eugen-Biser-Foundation Munich
- Board of trustees of the Islamkolleg Deutschland e.V.
- Advisory Board of the Muslim Education Center of Bavaria (registered association) (Muslimisches Bildungswerk Bayern e. V.)
- Associate editor, Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe
- Advisory Board, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia
- Advisory Board, Journal of Law, University of Kuwait
- Advisory Board, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion
- Associate Member, International Academy of Comparative Law
- Member of the Independent Expert Group on Muslimophobia (Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Homeland, Berlin), 2020-2023
- From the 1st of October 2019 Dean of Research of the Law Faculty
- Executive Director of the advisory board of the Department for Islamic-Religious Studies (Special Representative of the President) (Department für islamisch-religiöse Studien, DIRS)
- Chairman of the Library Comittee of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Bibliotheksausschuss der FAU)
- Chairman of the Board of the Dr.-Alfred-Vinzl-Foundation at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- German-Turkish Lawyers’ Association (DTJV – Deutsch-Türkische Juristenvereinigung)
- Civil Law Teachers’ Association (Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung)
- Treasurer of the Supporting Association for Family and Academia at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Schatzmeister des Fördervereins Familie und Wissenschaft e.V.) – from its formation in 2005 until its dissolution in 2019
- Miscellaneous
- Evangelic-Lutheran Church in Bavaria (Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche in Bayern)
- Board of trustees of the Lutheran City Academy, Erlangen (Evangelische Stadtakademie Erlangen)
- Advisory Board of the Christian-Islamic Association (Christlich-islamische Gesellschaft)
- Christian-Islamic Working Group Erlangen (Christlich – islamische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Erlangen)
- Advisory Board of Kreuz+Quer – Haus der Kirche Erlangen
- Neustadt Church Choir (Bass)
- St. Matthew’s Cantor Choir and Vocal Ensemble (Bass)
Curriculum Vitae
| 12.10.1959 | Born in Stuttgart |
| 1978 | General qualification for university entrance (Abitur) at the Wirtemberg-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Untertürkheim; Scheffel Award for the best performance in German; Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| 1978 – 1979 | Worked as a cook in Saudi Arabia and for the delivery service of the German Federal Post Office (Deutsche Bundespost), Stays in various oriental countries |
| 1979 – 1981 | Mandatory civilian service (in place of military service) at the Protestant Family Vacation Resort at Gomadingen |
| 1981 – 1988 | Study of law at Tübingen, First State Exam |
| 1981 – 1989 | Islamic Studies at Tübingen and Damascus (1984-85); Master´s Degree with a thesis on classical Islamic law (Dealing with theft according to the four schools) |
| 1988 – 1993 | Assistant to Prof. Dr. Dietrich Rothoeft/University of Tübingen |
| 1989 – 1992 | Practical legal training in Tübingen; Second State Exam |
| 1990 – 1995 | Taught courses in German law for foreign lawyers in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 1993 | Doctorate (Dr.jur.) with a dissertation on private international law (on the application of lex loci delicti); Awarded the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel Foundation sponsorship prize |
| 1993 – 1997 | Assistant to Prof. Dr. Wernhard Möschel/University of Tübingen |
| Februar 1997 | Habilitation in the subjects civil law, private international law and procedure, comparative law and European law; habilitation thesis on complex contractual relationships (Netzverträge – Rechtsprobleme komplexer Vertragsverbindungen) |
| Summer 1997 | Acting professor with chairs in Augsburg and Potsdam |
| September 1997 | Offer from the chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg ibidem |
| Juli 1999 | Offer from the chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg ibidem |
| 2001 – 2007 | Judge at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) Nuremberg |
| October 2004 | Rejection of an offer for the Chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Tübingen |
| 2004 – 2006 | Dean of the Faculty of Law in Erlangen |
| 2006 | Contributor to the German Islam Conference (Department of the Interior), in all phases since preparation |
| 2008 | Founding director of the FAU Erlangen Centre for Islam and the Law in Europe |
| 2011 | Conferment of the Karl-Steinbauer-Zeichens of the Bavarian Parishbrotherhood for christian courage |
| 2011 – 2013 | Leader of the working group “Paralleljustiz” of the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice |
| 2012 – 2013 | Leader of the working group on “Islamism and Islamophobia” organized by the Austrian State Secretary for Integration (“Dialogforum Islam”) |
| 2013 | Regelmäßige Gastprofessur an der KU Leuven |
| 2014 | Associate Member der International Academy of Comparative Law |
| 2018 | Elected ordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2018 | Degree of honorary doctor, awarded by the University of Ankara, as suggested by the Law Faculty, first honorary doctorate awarded by the Law Faculty since its foundation in 1927 |
| 2021 | Laureate of the WGIT Award 2020 of the Scientific Society for Islamic Theology |
| 1990 – | Publications on civil law, private international law, comparative law, European law, civil procedure law, Islamic law, and legal issues relating to Islam (mostly in German, but also in English, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and Japanese) The publications on Islamic law and the treatment of Islam in European and other legal systems are the subject of Emin Yıldırım’s dissertation: Yaşayan Hukuk İslam hukukunun Avrupa ve Almanya’daki yeri: Mathias Rohe örneği. Ankara University 2022, available at: https://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/xmlui;/handle/20.500.12575/88967?show=full |
| 1997 – | Extensive activity as an expert in parliaments as well as courts and as a consultant for the domestic and foreign governments; Hundreds of interviews for German and international media |
| 1991 – | Various invitations to hold lectures on legal and Islamic topics (among others in Montreal, Ottawa, Yale, Harvard, Washington DC, St. Louis, Denver, Provo, Berkeley, Oxford, London, Leicester, Coventry, Cardiff, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Bergen, Leiden, Utrecht, Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Leuven, Ghent, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg, Zurich, Bern, Salzburg, Vienna, Graz, Turin, Milan, Venice, Florence, Braga, Krakow, Budapest, Tartu, Minsk, Moscow, Kazan, St. Petersburg, Rabat, Fes, Casablanca, Cairo, Tripoli, Istanbul, Ankara, Kayseri, Malatya, Beirut, Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, Kabul, Dushanbe, Bishkek, Lahore, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe as well as in more than 100 cities in Germany) |
| 1975 – | Stays in the following oriental countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, Malaysia |
Family
Mathias Rohe has been married since 1983 and has two daughters.