Juristische Gesellschaft zu Berlin: Lecture by Nadjma Yassari on September 11
By invitation of the Juristische Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Nadjma Yassari, Professor at the University of Hamburg and Director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, will speak on Wednesday, September 11, at 6 p.m. in the Kammergericht Berlin (Plenarsaal) on “Early Marriage in Law”. All interested parties are warmly invited to attend!
The topic:
German lawmakers have not been successful in regulating early marriage abroad. The law enacted in 2017 to combat child marriages was submitted to the Federal Constitutional Court by the Federal Court of Justice to examine its constitutionality. The Federal Constitutional Court deemed it to be partially unconstitutional: a legislator may make the validity of foreign marriages generally dependent on a minimum age, but regulations on the consequences of invalidity have to be made. The amendment was passed on June 30, 2024. However, the law was not improved, quite the opposite. The consequences of the invalidity of early marriages only affect those who are to be protected, the law contradicts the system of German and international family law and will very likely be referred to the Federal Constitutional Court again.
About the speaker:
Professor Dr. Nadjma Yassari is Director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne and Professor of Private International Law, Comparative Law and Islamic Law at the University of Hamburg. From February 2009 to April 2024, she headed the research group “The Changing Law of God - Comparative Family and Succession Law in Islamic Countries” at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, a unique research unit that conducted comparative and interdisciplinary research on substantive law in Muslim legal systems. In 2009, she was Co-Director of the Center d'étude et de recherche en droit international et relations internationales at the Hague Academy of International Law in The Hague. In 2018, she was general rapporteur at the 20th International Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Fukuoka.
The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law is an independent federal institution based in Lausanne. The Institute is a documentation and research center for foreign and international law; its research focuses on international private and civil procedural law, comparative law methods and international commercial law. The Institute also prepares legal opinions and comparative law studies for federal authorities, courts and government agencies
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