SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

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Biography

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 School of Law in August 2012, Anicée was an adjunct professor at James Madison University (Florence), a reader at the University of Bedfordshire and then a lecturer at the University of Exeter.  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, UNDP,CBI, MSF, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and others. 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. She has also written on international human rights, international humanitarian law, Islamic law, human rights in Iran, refugee issues, terrorism and torture. Her latest book, The Distinction Between Civilians and Combatants in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, was released in March 2011.
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.