Events and Lectures
Law & Society Institute
Work in progress discussions
summer term 2018
The work in progress discussions series is organized by the LSI’s project group and it invites, above all but not only, young researchers to present and discuss their work in an informal and open atmosphere. The format offers the audience special insight into the newest research findings. Presenters get the opportunity for feedback, critique and suggestions regarding their own work in progress.
24.04.2018
22.05.2018 |
Entscheidungsfindung am Türkischen Verfassungsgericht (1962-2012) - Qualitative Interviews und inhaltsanalytische Verfahren
Experimentelle Ökonomik als rechtswissenschaftliches Forschungsinstrument
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29.05.2018 |
Methodological Choices and Challenges in Empirical Research on Language Diversity in Administrative Interactions
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26.06.2018 |
Podiumsdiskussion: Diversity oder Diskriminierung? Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt in der juristischen Ausbildung
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17.07.2018 |
Eine empirische Analyse der Notenverteilung im ersten und zweiten Staatsexamen
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24.07.2018 |
Öffentlicher Jour Fixe der LSI-Projektgruppe Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t., Raum UL9 E25 |
Gender Equality in Law: The Legacies of Czech State Socialism
Lecture by Barbara Havelková, University of Oxford
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 6 p.m.
Room B 002/003
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH (WZB Berlin Social Science Center), Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarte www.wzb.eu
Comments by Anne Griffiths, University of Edinburgh
Barbara Havelková’s talk draws on her analysis of the interpretation and application of anti-discrimination law in Czechia, which was recently published in the monograph “Gender Equality in Law: Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism” (Hart, 2017). Among Czech law-makers and judges, there are two understandings of discrimination – one wide and one narrow – neither of which corresponds to the EU’s anti-discrimination law. There is, first, an acceptance of the principle of formal equality, of treating likes alike. This wide understanding is capable of weeding out arbitrariness in public decision-making, but not of addressing the treatment of groups which are viewed as “different”, such as women or Roma. Second, there is a very narrow understanding of discrimination as exceptional excesses, intentional acts, motivated by racism or sexism. But much discrimination on the basis of race or sex/gender is not like that – it is often rather behaviour-based on unconscious bias, done by “good” people, without hateful animus. This two-pronged understanding, which misses the just right middle ground where EU anti-discrimination law sits, makes claims practically impossible to win. Indeed, 18 years after anti-discrimination norms were first introduced into Czech law, a woman has yet to fully win an anti-discrimination claim. The talk explains this peculiar conceptualization of anti-discrimination law, focusing on its intellectual underpinnings and their historical background.
Barbara Havelková is currently the Shaw Foundation Fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Her research and teaching interests include gender legal studies and feminist jurisprudence, equality and anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, EU law and law in post-socialist transitions.
Anne Griffiths is Professor of Anthropology of Law at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on anthropology of law, comparative and family law, African law, gender, culture.
If you want to register please send an e-mail to Anuschka Siegers (anuschka.siegers@wzb.eu) by April 17, 2018 at the latest.
Organized by:
Prof. Dr. Michael Wrase
Professor of Public Law
University of Hildesheim/WZB
michael.wrase [at] wzb.eu
Our event location is wheelchair-accessible. If you need support, please let Friederike Theilen-Kosch know: friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu
Humboldt Law Clinic Grund- und Menschenrechte and Chair of Public Law and Gender Studies Human Rights Lecture
Thursday February 8th, 2018, 18:00, Faculty of Law, UdL 9, Room 213
"Decolonial Thinking and the History of Human Rights"
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Barreto Soler
(University Externado of Colombia, University of the Andes)
Introduction and Chair: PD Dr. Anna Katharina Mangold, LL.M. (Cambridge), Chair of Public Law and Gender Studies, Faculty of Law, HU Berlin
The talk will explore the question: What does it mean to think decolonially - or how to decolonise thinking? Mainstream Eurocentric histories of human rights will be examined in contrast to a history of rights linked to modern imperialism. The lecture will end with some considerations on the practical consequences of such a critical dialogue between Eurocentric and Third-World perspectives on human rights.
José Manuel Barreto works on the decolonisation of human rights and international law, and explores their history and theory in the context of modern imperialism. He edited 'Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law' (2013). He studied Philosophy and Law at the National University and the University Externado of Colombia, respectively. He holds an MA in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, he obtained a PhD in Law from Birkbeck College, both at the University of London. He was a Rechtskulturen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Kate Hamburger Kolleg, University of Bonn. He is currently a Lecturer at the University Externado and Catholic University of Colombia.
Law & Society Lecture Series
24.10.2017 Anthropology and Law - a Conversation
Prof. Mark Goodale, Laboratory of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lausanne
Dr. Despoina Glarou, Faculty of Law, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Jonas Bens, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Alik Mazukatow, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gabriele d'Amico, Faculty of Law, Freie Universität Berlin
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t., Raum UL9 E25
23.01.2018 Should Non-state Actors Have Directly Applicable Fundamental Rights Obligations? A Philosophical Exploration
Prof. David Bilchitz, University of Johannesburg
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t., Raum UL9 E25
06.02.2018 Gespenster, Schimmel und der Nationale Normenkontrollrat - Geschichte(n) der Bürokratiekritik
Prof. Dr. Pascale Cancik, Universität Osnabrück/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t., Raum UL9 E25
Work in progress discussions
winter semester 2017/18
The work in progress discussions series is organized by the LSI’s project group and it invites, above all but not only, young researchers to present and discuss their work in an informal and open atmosphere. The format offers the audience special insight into the newest research findings. Presenters get the opportunity for feedback, critique and suggestions regarding their own work in progress.
An overview of upcoming and past workshop discussions is available on the German version of this web page.
Ein reflexiver Blick auf die juristische Ausbildung
07.11.2017 |
Zur Rolle von Fremdsprachenkompetenz und
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05.12.2017 |
Das Jurastudium - Studienerleben und studentische Praxis |
16.01.2018 |
Eine empirische Analyse der Notenverteilung im ersten und zweiten Staatsexamen
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13.02.2018 |
Juristische Ausbildung zwischen Selbstreflexion und Objektivitätsanspruch |
Work in progress discussions
Summer term 2017
18.05.2017 Demokratische Inklusion durch Recht. Antidiskriminierungsrecht als
Ermöglichungsbedingung der demokratischen Begegnung von
Freien und Gleichen
Anna Katharina Mangold (Berlin)
Time: 6 p.m. , UL 9, room E 25
30.05.2017 Die institutionelle Haftungsbeschränkung als Grenze der
unternehmerischen Menschenrechtshaftung. Eine interdisziplinäre
Annäherung
Chris Thomale (Heidelberg)
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t. UL 9, room E 25
20.06.2017 Klassenjustiz 2.0. Der Einfluss unbewusster Vorurteile vor Gericht
Kathleen Jäger (Berlin)
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t. UL 9, room E 25
27.06.2017 Methods of conducting research on the laws against trafficking.
With a focus on victim protection in the European Union
Victoria Yiwumi Nge Faison (Berlin)
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t. UL 9, room E 25
18.07.2017 Staatsanwaltlicher Umgang mit rechter und rassistischer Gewalt.
Strukturelle Defizite und Kontinuitäten am Beispiel der Ermittlungen
zum NSU-Komplex
Isabella Greif (Berlin), Fiona Schmidt (Berlin)
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t. UL 9, room E 25
2017 Lecture Series "Law, Politics, Economy"
13.06.2017 Flying Narendra Modi Kites in India? How to understand current
developments in the world's largest democracy
Prof. Dr. em. Werner Menski (SOAS, University of London)
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t., Raum UL9 E25
26.06.2017 Finance and Human Rights
Prof. Dr. em. Daniel Bradlow (American University Washington/University
of Pretoria)
Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t., Raum BE 2 E44/47
03.07.2017 Law and economics
Prof. Dr. Lars Feld (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Christian Waldhoff (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Beginn: 17.30 Uhr, Raum UL 11, 101 (WHI-Bibliothek)
Brown- Bag- Lunch
China and the Death of American Comparative Law
14 March 2017, 12-14h c.t., Room 139a, 1 floor law faculty Bebelplatz
The Law and Society Institute of HU invites you to a brown bag lunch with Prof. Jed Kronke on
"China and the Death of American Comparative Law"
Jed Kronke is Professor at Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo and will introduce his book "The Futility of Law and Development", published 2016 with OUP.
Cold drinks will be served, and guests are welcome to bring a lunch snack into the event.
Please briefly notify us of your attendance via e-mail to michael.riegner@rewi.hu-berlin.de.
Workshop discussions
Fall semester 2016/17
The workshop discussions series is organized by the LSI’s project group and it invites, above all but not only, young researchers to present and discuss their work in an informal and open atmosphere. The format offers the audience special insight into the newest research findings. Presenters get the opportunity for feedback, critique and suggestions regarding their own work in progress.
An overview of upcoming and past workshop discussions is available on the German version of this web page.
08.11.2016 How the Philosophy of Human Rights (and the Crisis of Legal Positivism) is Destined to Change the Law
Guido Croxatto (Berlin)
Kommentar: Antonio José Teixeira Martins (Frankfurt a. M.)
06.12.2016 Public Jour Fixe of the Law&Society project group
24.01.2017 Der „Wille des Volkes“ versus Rechtsstaat? Die Entmachtung der Verfassungsgerichte in Ungarn und Polen
Christian Boulanger (Berlin), Paulina Starski (Heidelberg),
Dániel Hegedüs (Berlin)
07.02.2017 Soziale Rechte jenseits des Aufenthaltsrechts und der Staatsangehörigkeit
Ibrahim Kanalan (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Kommentar: Cengiz Barskanmaz (Berlin)
Humboldt Law Clinic Grund- und Menschenrechte: 8th cycle (2016/17)
The eigth cycle of Humboldt Law Clinic Grund- und Menschenrechte started in the winter term 2016/17. 18 students of Law or Gender Studies are working with us and our partners in different projects on cases from the area of fundamental and human rights.
The cycle is supervised by Dr. Anja Schmidt, Katharina Bager, Alexander Klose, Doris Liebscher and Karina Theurer and consists of three elements: the foundational course (BZQ), a four-week internship, and the in-depth seminar.
Master Class with Prof. Catharine MacKinnon (Michigan)
Intersectional Inequalities:
Street Harassment, Prostitution et.al. – Race/Sex/Religion etc.
Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, LL.M. (Michigan)
Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Juristische Fakultät & Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien Public Law & Gender Studies
Monday, 20 June 2016, 9 – 13 h, Humboldt University of Berlin
I am delighted to host a Master Class with Professor MacKinnon in Berlin to discuss challenges in sex equality law arising from cases of sexualized and racialized inequalities and often affected by religious politics as well. Recent German debates around sexual harassment (“Aufschrei”) and street harassment (“Silvester in Köln”) or new regulatory schemes of prostitution (“Prostituiertenschutzgesetz”) are cases in point. The Masterclass will serve to discuss these and topics brought in by participants in a workshop format on the basis of a small selection of common reading.
C.A. MacKinnon is an internationally renowned legal scholar, lawyer and advisor on sex equality law and human rights. She was the first to conceptualize sexual harassment as discrimination, in 1979, discussing race and sex as well as class as specifically intersecting inequalities. She drafted civil rights legislation against pornography, litigated many cases of sexual harassment and sexual abuse, and represented Bosnian and Croatian women in Kadic v. Karadzic to win a jury verdict of $745 million in the U.S. in 2000. She has served as an advisor to the Swedish government to ban prostitution, and to the International Criminal Court in 2008–2012 to implement her concept of “gender crimes.”
Her books: Sex Equality (2001/2007), Are Women Human? (2006), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), Only Words (1993), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Feminism Unmodified (1987), Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979).
All those interested and willing to contribute actively and to discuss their own projects are invited to apply. To secure a workshop atmosphere, the number of participants is limited to 20. To apply, please send a letter of motivation including a short description of the project you are working on (max. 2 pages) and your CV to sekretariat.baer@rewi.hu-berlin.de. The application deadline is 15 April 2016.
Download this announcement here.
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