Forschungsinteressen
- Egyptian legal history 19th and 20th centuries
- Probate councils and alienation
- Positivisation phenomenon in Islamicate contexts
- Mixed courts in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Tangier
Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe
Projekt
Vita
Aya Bejermi is a doctoral candidate in legal history at the University of Bordeaux (Institut de recherche Montesquieu). Her research focuses on the judicial treatment of incapacity disputes before the probate councils (majālis ḥisbiyya) in Egypt. She examines the ‘positivisation’ phenomenon in Egypt, encompassing themes such as judicial transformations and lexical usage.
She holds degrees from the University of Nantes, Panthéon-Assas University (France), and Cardiff University (UK).
Between September 2022 and September 2024, she was a guest Lecturer at Jönköping University in Sweden. She also gave lectures in the College Diploma ‘Law, Society and Religion’ at Bordeaux University.
Short research stays:
May-June 2024 Dar al-Kutub al-Qawmiya al-Miṣriya (Egyptian National Library), Cairo
May-June 2024 The Egyptian Society for Political Economy, Statistics, and Legislations (ESPESL), Cairo
May-June 2024 The Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ), Cairo
June 2023 Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Araştırmaları Merkezi (İSAM), Istanbul
2020 & 2022 Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland
May-June 2016 Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OXCIS), Oxfor
She worked as a legal mission head at the Department of Public Liberties and Legal Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior in Paris from Sept. 2019 to Sept.2020.
She was a legal clerk at Documentation and Research Division of the First Civil Chamber at the Court of Cassation from Jan. 2017 to Dec. 2018.