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Interim Professor joins the Chair
Starting in October 2025, Laura Anna Klein joins the Chair for Public and Comparative Law as Interim Professor.
Philipp Dann and Florian Jeßberger open new Centre for Advanced Studies RefLex
The increasingly intense international debate on how to deal with the colonial legacy marks a new, reflective phase of globalisation. This is one of the initial propositions of the Centre for Advanced Studies Reflexive Globalization and the Law (RefLex): Colonial Legacies and their Global Implications in the 21st Century. It aims to explicitly expand the discourse on globalisation in the area of legal studies to include a postcolonial perspective. The objective of the project is to contribute to debates on asymmetries in global knowledge production and scholarly practice. Furthermore, the Research Unit will seek to develop a better understanding of the meaning, contextual relationships and scope of legal concepts. It also aims to draw on the notion of reflexive globalisation to gain a better understanding of the current readjustment of the South-North relationship.
RefLex is lead by Professors Philipp Dann and Florian Jeßberger as Co-Directors and will host 20 Fellows throughout the 2025/2026 academic year. The official launch of the Centre will take place on 11 February 2026 with an academic event featuring the President of Humboldt University as well as Dipesh Chakrabarty as keynote speaker.