Marie-Claire Foblets

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Baroness Marie-Claire Foblets (born November 5, 1959 in Brasschaat , Belgium) is a Belgian lawyer , social anthropologist and university professor. From 1991 to 2012 she was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Antwerp , from 2008 also Professor of Law and Anthropology and Head and Chair of the Institute for Immigration Law and Legal Anthropology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . Since 2012 she has been the head of the department for “ Anthropology and Law ” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) .

Research and Teaching

In 1977 Foblets began studying law at the University of Antwerp . After completing her bachelor's degree in 1979, she moved to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), where she completed her law degree with a master's degree in 1982 and also studied Thomistic philosophy . Thanks to a scholarship, she was able to continue her philosophy studies at the Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1982/83 and supplemented it with studies in social and cultural anthropology in 1985 . She obtained master's degrees in these subjects in 1984 and 1985. She then worked for ten years in a Brussels law firm specializing in the problems of minorities and migrants and as an assistant at the University of Leuven, where she also received her doctorate in social and cultural anthropology in 1990 with a thesis dealing with Maghreb families and the judiciary in Belgium.

From 1991 to 2012 she was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Antwerp , from 2008 also Professor of Law and Anthropology and Head and Chair of the Institute for Immigration Law and Legal Anthropology at KUL. She organized workshops at the Spanish International Institute for the Sociology of Law . Since 2012 she has headed the newly established department for “ Anthropology and Law ” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPIeF) in Halle (Saale) and since June 2014 Honorary Professor for Law and Ethnology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . She has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 2015 . In 2007 a stamp was published in her honor in the series “This is Belgium”.

Foblet's invitation to Norman Finkelstein to give a lecture at the Max Planck Institute entitled “Martyrdom of Gaza” in January 2017 led to protests. She had previously invited him to the University of Leuven, "because his publications reflect the opinions of many Arab countries". According to Foblets, students have to learn to deal with controversial opinions. Their “contradicting information policy” also led to discussion and criticism from the Federal Government and the Bundestag.

See also: Controversy about Norman Finkelstein's invitation

Awards

Publications

as editor
  • (with B. Saunder): Changing genders in intercultural perspectives. Leuven University Press, Leuven 2002.
  • (with Trutz von Throtha): Healing the Wounds. Essays on the Reconstruction of Societies after War. Hart Publishing, Oxford 2004. (Oñati International Series in Law and Society)
  • (with Alison Dundes Renteln): Multicultural Jurisprudence. Comparative Perspectives on the Cultural Defense. Hart Publishing, Oxford 2009. (Oñati International Series in Law and Society)
  • (with K. Aldadi and J. Vrielink): A Test of Faith? Religious Diversity and Accommodation in the European Workplace. Ashgate, Aldershot 2012.
Articles (selection)
  • Freedom of religion and belief in the European workplace: which way forward and what role for the European Union? in: International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 13 (2-3), pp. 240-255 (2013).
  • Foblets, M.-C., Alidadi, K., Bernaerts, J., Burai, P., Kokal, K., Riedel, M., Steyn, E .: Which law for which religion ?: ethnographic inquiries into the limits of state law vis-à-vis lived religion , in: Rechtssphilosophie: Zeitschrift für basic des Rechts 3, pp. 237-282 (2016).
  • Vetters, L .; Foblets, M.-C .: Culture all around ?: contextualizing anthropological expertise in European courtroom settings , in: International Journal of Law in Context 12 (3), pp. 272-292 (2016).

literature

  • Birgit Fenzel: Everything that is right. In: MaxPlanckResearch . Issue 3/2012, page 78ff. (Article about Marie-Claire Foblets), mpg.de (PDF; 5.4 MB).
  • Marie-Claire Foblets: Law and Ethnology , in: Annual Report of the Max Planck Society 2012, Munich, April 2013, supplement "Personalalien", page 5 (article on Foblets)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foblets, Marie-Claire. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ see illustration of the stamp in the stamp catalog colnect.com and Marie-Claire Foblets: Law and Ethnology , in: Annual Report of the Max Planck Society 2012, Munich, April 2013, supplement "Personalalien", page 5 (article on Foblets)
  3. ↑ Max Planck Director explains herself “Finkelstein asked many critical questions” , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, January 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Max Planck Director explains herself: “Finkelstein asked many critical questions” . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on April 2, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government: Inconsistent information policy of the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research in the case of Dr. Norman Finkelstein. (PDF) In: Brief request for printed matter 18/11459. German Bundestag, March 8, 2017, accessed March 25, 2017 .
  6. ^ Federal government criticizes the Max Planck Institute in Halle . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on August 20, 2017]).
  7. ^ Honorary doctorate for Max Planck Director Marie-Claire Foblets. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Foblets, Marie-Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian lawyer and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Brasschaat , Belgium