Dr Anicee Van-Engeland
Lecturer
Dr Anicée (Anisseh) Van Engeland-Nourai
Director LL.B European Studies
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LL.B (Assas/Utrecht Universiteit), MA (Sorbonne), MA (Assas), LL.M (HLS), PhD (I.E.P.)
Dr Van Engeland holds a LL.M. (Harvard Law School), two M.A. (Iranian Studies from the Université de Paris III Sorbonne and International Relations from Université Paris II Assas) and a Ph.D. (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris).
Prior to joining the University of Exeter in September 2010, Anicée was a reader at the University of Bedfordshire. She also held post doc fellowship positions at McGill University and at the European University Institute. Before entering academia, Anicée worked for 7 years for human rights and humanitarian organisations.
As an international human rights jurist and political analyst, Anicée has worked with ICRC, UNHCR, ILO, IOM and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She frequently acts as a consultant for international universities, research centres and think-tanks worldwide.
Anicée’s research focuses on the new hermeneutics of the Shari’a and the role of Muslim civil societies in encouraging the reform of Islamic law. Her main field work has been the Islamic Republic of Iran. She works on the interactions between human rights and Islam and humanitarian law and Islam. Her latest book, The Distinction Between Civilians and Combatants in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, was released in March 2011. She has also written widely in the areas of international human rights, international humanitarian law, Islamic law, human rights in Iran, refugee issues, terrorism and torture.
Fluent in French and Persian, Anicée serves on the advisory board of the Irmgard Coninx Foundation in Berlin and is an associate editor for the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights.
External Positions and Appointments
Research Associate, SOAS
Contact Information
School of Law,
Amory Building,
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Exeter EX4 4 RJ
Office A 020
Phone : 01392 723379
