Grandmaia Elwan

Omaia Elwan (born August 1, 1932 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian legal scholar and former academic director at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Elwan studied law at the University of Cairo , where he obtained his license en droit in 1953 . In 1954 and 1955 he also obtained the Diplome d'Etudes Supérieures de Doctorat in private law and public law in Cairo; at the University of Rennes he also acquired this degree in 1959 in Romance law and legal history. Subsequently, Elwan held within the framework of a research stay at the University of Heidelberg , where he in 1962 with magna cum laude for Dr. iur . PhD . Even after completing his doctorate, Elwan continued to research in Germany, supported by a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From 1963 he worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law , but returned to Heidelberg in 1964 to the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Business Law there, where he worked as Academic Director. From 1973 to 2011 worked as a consultant for the Arab states at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg for Comparative Public Law and International Law . In 1997 he was appointed Professor Emeritus by the University of Cairo. Since his retirement he has been giving a block lecture on Islamic law at Heidelberg University.

Works (selection)

• The representation in dogma-historical and comparative law perspective . Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1963 (dissertation).
• with Bruno Menhofer and Dirk Otto: Expertise on foreign family and inheritance law: Near and Middle East, Africa and Asia . Verlag für Standesamtwesen, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-8019-5696-7 .

literature

• Herbert Kronke , Gert Reinhart and Nika Witteborg: Islamic and Arabic Law as a Problem of the Application of Law - Symposium in honor of Professor Emeritus Dr. iur. Grandmaia Elwan. Peter lang, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-631-38077-2 .
• Bruno Menhofer and Dirk Otto (Hrsg.er): Right after the Arab Spring: Proceedings in honor of the 80th birthday of Professor em. Dr. Grandmaia Elwan . PL Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-64953-4 .

Web links

• Elwan at the Institute for International Private Law at the University of Heidelberg