Marie-Claire Foblets

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Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany, and Honorary Professor of Law & Anthropology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her interests include Islam in Europe, religious diversity in a secular context and international family law. Before joining the Max Planck Society, Foblet held teaching positions at the universities of Antwerp and Brussels as well as an Erasmus lectureship on Comparative Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. In 2004, she was awarded the Francqui Prize, the most distinguished scientific award in the humanities in Belgium.