Ebrahim Afsah

Ebrahim Afsah (*1973 in Tehran) is an Iranian-German legal scholar. He is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Copenhagen and was Professor of Islamic Law at the Institute for European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna from 2018-22. Educated at the Universities of London, Dublin and Harvard, as well as the Max Planck Institute for International Law, he worked for many years as a legal and administrative expert in development cooperation, mainly in Afghanistan. More recently, Ebrahim Afsah was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, at the Norwegian Centre for Advanced Studies (Nordic Civil Wars in Comparative Perspective), at Harvard Law School (Islamic Legal Studies Program), and at the National University of Singapore (Centre for Asian Legal Studies).

Afsah is an expert in Islamic law, international law and state-building in transitional societies. He has worked as a consultant for various international organisations, including the United Nations and the European Union, and is particularly involved in promoting the rule of law in the Middle East. In addition to his academic work, he is regularly present in the media as a commentator on international legal issues.