Main Focus
- 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 Research Group
Project
Curriculum Vitae
Aya Bejermi is a legal historian specializing in 19th–20th century Egypt. She is a researcher as part of the research group “Hidden Heritage of the European Union” at Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, where she conducts a research project on Mixed Courts in semi-colonial contexts.
In March 2026, she got a PhD (doctorat) in legal history at the University of Bordeaux (Institut de recherche Montesquieu). Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the judicial treatment of incapacity disputes before the probate councils in Egypt. She examines the ‘positivisation’ phenomenon in Egypt, encompassing themes such as judicial transformations and lexical usage.
Graduated from the Universities of Nantes, Cardiff (Wales), and Panthéon-Assas, she has gained professional experience at the Court of Cassation and in various government ministries, including the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior in Paris, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
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.
Aya Bejermi served as Guest Lecturer at Jönköping University in Sweden (2022–2024).
She has been a Junior Lecturer in the College Diploma Law, Society and Religion at the University of Bordeaux since 2022 and she is teaching from April to July 2026 Islamic Normativity in Modern Egypt at Goethe University.