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LSI Berlin is now inaugurated as Integrative Research Institute!

The Integrative Research Institute Law & Society (LSI) celebrated its inauguration on 29 November 2019 in the law faculty of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.


The Integrative Research Institute Law & Society (LSI) is very grateful for the great interest in its opening event on 29 November 2019 in the law faculty of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The institute, which has been advancing interdisciplinary legal research in Germany since 2008, is now officially inaugurated as the university’s fourth Integrative Research Institute (IRI). The IRIs are interdisciplinary research institutes which support intra-university cooperation and thus provide a framework for innovative approaches that transcend disciplinary boundaries. They are funded by the Excellence Initiative.


Prof. Dr. Stefan Grundmann, Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law, and Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Principal Investigator of the LSI, opened the evening with their greetings and the speakers of the LSI, Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff and Prof. Dr. Anna-Bettina Kaiser, informed about already started and planned activities of the LSI. Prof. Dr. Marietta Auer, University of Gießen and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, gave the keynote lecture on "What is Legal Theory? She outlined an interdisciplinary field of research in legal theory and advocated a closer link between dogmatic tradition and philosophical reflection.


"This institute has future!” – acclaimed Stefan Grundmann in his welcoming address. We look forward to shaping this future in the coming years.


The evening was also part of the first Berlin Winter School on Politics & Law, organized by the LSI together with the Centre Marc Bloch and the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies from 28 to 30 November. Please find a detailed conference report here. Further information on the cooperation with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University can be found here.


The following links will also provide you with further information on the activities and research fields of the LSI Berlin.


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