Dörthe Engelcke is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. She received her PhD from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in 2015. She is the co-winner of the 2016 BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University. Prior to coming to Oxford, she completed an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. She has held fellowships at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study. Her research focuses on the interaction of law and society in the MENA region as well as questions of legal pluralism, Islamic law, and legal politics. She is a contributor to the Brill Encyclopedia of Law and Religion. Her work has appeared in Law & Social Inquiry, the Journal of Law and Religion, and Islamic Law and Society.
