Gastwissenschaftler*innen und Fellows
Das LSI empfängt Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und etablierte Forschende aus dem In- und Ausland zu Gastaufenthalten in Berlin. Interessenbekundungen, die sich an den aktuellen Forschungsaktivitäten und -projekten des LSI orientieren, sind jederzeit möglich, sollten aber in der Regel mindestens sechs Monate vor dem geplanten Aufenthalt eingehen.
Bitte schicken Sie Ihre Anfrage mit aussagekräftigen Unterlagen (Motivationsschreiben, Lebenslauf und Kurzexposé der Forschungsarbeit, insgesamt max. fünf Seiten) an lsi@rewi.hu-berlin.de.
Eine Assoziierung erfolgt im Normalfall für eine Dauer von bis zu maximal sechs Monaten. Die Unterstützung von Gastwissenschaftler:innen durch das LSI umfasst die Bereitstellung eines HU-Bibliothekszugangs, den Kontakt zu Senior Researchers des LSI sowie die Möglichkeit zur Teilnahme an allen LSI-Veranstaltungen. Erwartet wird darüber hinaus eine Vorstellung eines eigenen Forschungsthemas im Rahmen eines Abendvortrags, Werkstattgesprächs oder einem ähnlichen Format. Das LSI kann Gastaufenthalte in Ausnahmefällen finanziell unterstützen. Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten können im Falle einer erfolgreichen Bewerbung individuell abgestimmt werden.
Zur Förderung des Wissenstransfers zwischen Theorie und Praxis haben Praktiker:innen (beispielsweise aus dem Feld der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, der Verwaltung oder den Medien) die Möglichkeit, ihre Erfahrungen im Rahmen eines Gastaufenthalts am LSI wissenschaftlich aufzuarbeiten. Für Bewerbungen auf ein solches Practitioner Fellowship gelten die oben genannten Konditionen.
Aktuelle Gastwissenschaftler*innen
Berkant Caglar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His dissertation is tentatively titled “Contested Legalities and Harmful Judiciary: Queer Justice and Legal Activism in Turkish Courtrooms”. Intrigued by the unique challenges faced by queer individuals in their interactions with the state’s judiciary, his research critically examines the legal activism of queer pro-bono lawyers and sheds light on secular legal infrastructures. It attends to a wide variety of litigation processes for cases involving queer claimants and defendants in the domains such as legal standing, right to protest, public decency, and hate crime. In addition to this dissertation research, his ongoing minor project focuses on denialism as a governing category in post-genocidal Turkey. In his DAAD-sponsored residency, he is affiliated with the Integrative Research Institute Law and Society and the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy.
Janna Wessels
Janna WesselsJanna Wessels is Associate Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Prior to joining the ACMRL, Janna Wessels held positions at Justus Liebig University Giessen and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She received her PhD in refugee law from the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney and the Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (joint degree). Janna is a member of the Dutch Meijers Committee – Standing Committee of Experts in International Immigration, Refugee and Criminal Law, an Affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative (London), and a member of the German Network Migration Law.
Janna Wessels’ research investigates the link between human rights and migration law and policy. She is the author of the monograph “The Concealment Controversy. Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection” (CUP 2021, paperback 2023) and co-author of “Human Rights Challenges to European Migration Policy. The REMAP Study” (Hart/Nomos 2022, open access). Her current research focuses on strategic litigation by states in migration-related cases before the European Court of Human Rights (Dutch NWO Veni project and Principal Investigator of the DFG funded MeDiMi project “Who is Empowered by Strasbourg? Migrants and States before the ECtHR”).
Deniz Gedik
Deniz GedikDeniz Gedik received her BA and LLM from Galatasaray University, Istanbul, and her MA from Panteion University, Athens. She started her MPhil/PhD studies at London School of Economics and Political Science, London, before she was admitted as a visiting fellow at the LSI Berlin. Both as a lawyer registered to the Istanbul Bar Association since 2012, and a scholar, her work stands at the intersection point of social movements and law. Her PhD is on the right to resist in comparative constitutional law and her research at Humboldt University focuses on the right to resist in post-Soviet constitutionalism.
Esra Demir-Gürsel
Esra Demir-GürselEsra Demir-Gürsel (PhD) is an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Law. After receiving her LL.M in Public Law from Istanbul University and MA in Human Rights from the University of Essex, she obtained her PhD in Public Law from Marmara University. Previously, she worked at the departments of Human Rights Law and Public Law at Marmara University in Istanbul. Between 2017 and 2020, she held visiting positions at Freie Universität Berlin and Hertie School of Governance. Her main research interests involve human rights law, the history of international law, gender and liberal legalism. Her on-going research project investigates into the limits of the European Court of Human Rights in responding to the entrenchment of authoritarianism in Turkey in comparison with the cases of other member states of the Council of Europe showing similar authoritarian tendencies. Her research traces the current limits of the Court back to the histories of the evolution of the Council of Europe and the Court.
Elisavet Lampropoulou
M2R Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne
Email: elisavet.lampropoulou@gmail.com
Elisavet Lampropoulou is currently doing research on the question of the Greek financial crisis as a type of emergency situation, on how it was treated by the case-law of the Greek Council of State while performing judicial review of constitutionality of the legislation adopted as a response to the crisis and on the de facto constitutional changes that have occured due to these emergency circumstances. She is interested in the question of emergency leading to a re-invention of the constitutional rule instead of a delegation of the rule, the relation between political power and judicial power and the role of the Council of State as legislator and quasi-constitutional court.
Permanent Fellows
Dr. Anna-Julia Saiger, LL.M. (King's Collge, London)
Dr. Ines Reiling
Dr. Johan Horst, LL.M. (Georgetown)
Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie
Prof. Dr. Jan-Werner Müller
Princeton University, Politics Department
Jan-Werner Müller ist Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences und Professor of Politics an der Princeton University. Zu seinen Publikationen zählen Freiheit, Gleichheit, Ungewissheit (Suhrkamp, 2021), Furcht und Freiheit (2019) sowie Verfassungspatriotismus (2010). Mehr Informationen unter https://jwmueller.princeton.edu/
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Dr. Larissa Vetters
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Dr. Christian Boulanger
Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie
Dr. Yoan Vilain, LL.M.
Abteilung Internationales der HU Berlin (Kommissarische Leitung)
Einstein Fellows
Seit 2019 sind vier Einstein Fellows am LSI assoziiert. Mehr Informationen zu den Fellows und zum Hintergrund des Programms finden Sie auf der Seite des Instituts für Sozialwissenschaften der HU.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülçin Balamir Coşkun
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuba Inal-Cekic
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Kars Kaynar
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kıvılcım
Ehemalige Gastwissenschaftler:innen
Dr. Stefan Salomon
Stefan Salomon is Assistant Professor of European Law at the European Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on migration and refugee law. He researches how legal governance of migration changes citizenship and produces racial inequalities. His research also covers questions of space and territory in EU law and international law. Stefan worked and conducted research in different regions and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining the University of Amsterdam, Stefan was a lecturer at the law faculty at the University of Graz, where he taught the Refugee Law Clinic, international public law and migration and asylum law.
Tenured Assistant Professor in European Law at the European Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam and re:constitution Fellow
University at Buffalo
Francesco Bosso, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
During his association with the Integrative Research Institute Law & Society, Francesco will be completing his PhD thesis on "the borders of the Rechtsstaat", which ethnographically investigates the doctrinal meaning and the social significance of the Rechtsstaat ideal in relation to the process of migrant exclusion.
https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/people/francesco-bosso
Mathis Stock
Université de Lausanne, Institut de géographie et durabilité
Mathis Stock arbeitet im Rahmen seiner Assoziierung an der Frage der Geographizität des Rechts, d.h. sowohl der räumlichen Verweise von Rechtsnormen als auch der Produktion spezifischer Raumqualitäten durch rechtliche Regulierung. Insbesondere die Folgen geographischer Mobilität auf die rechtliche Normierung des Wohnens und des öffentlichen Raums stehen im Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit.
Prof. Dr. Olaf Zenker
Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin
Während seiner Assoziierung am Law & Society Institute arbeitet Herr Prof. Dr. Olaf Zenker an dem Buchvorhaben "Land restitution and the moral modernity of the new South African state".
Judith Eggers
Max-Planck-Institute für ethnologische Forschung, Halle (Saale)
Judith Eggers ist im Rahmen ihrer Assoziierung in dem vom Max-Planck-Institut und Law & Society Institute gemeinsam getragenen Forschungsprojekt "Was macht Migration mit deutschem Verwaltungsrecht" tätig.
Teresa Büchsel
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Teresa Büchsel arbeitet im Rahmen der Assoziierung an ihrem Promotionsvorhaben „Protection Status Attribution in German Administrative Courts - A Socio-Legal Inquiry“.
Benedikt Vischer, MA, MLaw, LL.M. (Yale)
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
Benedict Vischer arbeitet im Rahmen der Assoziierung an seinem Dissertationsprojekt "Die Fremdheit des Rechts. Sprengkraft und Exklusionsgewalt der Rechtssemantik unter Bedingungen der Globalisierung". Weiterführende Informationen