College of Law
Inessa Hadjivayanis
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Key information
Key information
- Department
- College of Law
- Qualifications
- LLB HONS (London South Bank University), LLM (SOAS)
- Subject
- Law
- Email address
- 276375@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Interrogating unregistered marriages in England and Wales among Swahili speakers: A case study of Zanzibari women
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Samia Bano & Professor Mashood Baderin
Biography
Inessa Hadjivayanis currently works as a Legal Adviser at SOAS while undertaking her PhD at SOAS on a part time basis. Inessa obtained her LLB (Hons) from the London South Bank University and an LLM in Environmental law from SOAS.
Inessa is an Advocate of the High Court of Zanzibar, Tanzania, since 2006. For over two decades, Inessa has worked as a lawyer in the private sector, with local government authorities and with charities both in the UK and Tanzania. Inessa’s expertise has largely been in contract law, although she has worked in other areas of law. Inessa has also previously worked as a Teaching fellow at SOAS.
Inessa developed an interest in family law, and specifically Muslim family law, in recent years and decided to pursue a PhD in that area. In Zanzibar, Sharia law applies to family matters such as marriage and divorce for Muslims in Zanzibar. The issues of marriage among Zanzibari women in England and Wales, who have therefore come from a legal system that recognises Islamic marriages as valid legal marriage, is of great interest to Inessa. Inessa’s research is carried out with the Zanzibari community in England and Wales and the community centers that Zanzibaris belong to in England and Wales as well as with the Kadhi courts in Zanzibar.
Research interests
- Muslim family in the UK
- Human Rights
