Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung

Visiting Fellows 2015

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Visiting Fellows (in chronological order)

Philippe Gout (October 2015 – June 2016)
Research Interests

International law, peacebuilding, customary legal orders, legal pluralism

Research Areas

Sudan

Farrah Raza (October 2015 – February 2016)
Research Interests

Religious accommodation, secularisms, constitutions

Research Areas

Europe, UK, Germany

Tobias Berger (October – December 2015)
Research Interests

Translation, rule of law, anthropology of international organsisations, village courts

Research Areas

Bangladesh

Petra Burai (February 2015 – February 2016)
Research Interests

Corruption, limits of law, human rights, normative pluralism

Research Areas

Hungary

Quotes

"I am very grateful to the Department for the various scientific activities I was able to participate in during my stay. Most notably, I attended the bi-weekly write-up seminars organized by Senior Scientific Editor Brian Donahoe, during which the Department’s PhD students present their respective research and work-in-progress. These seminars provide helpful critical feedback and contribute to the feeling of being part of a comprehensive team. I am also thankful to Professor Foblets, who personally supervised my work during my stay and invited me to participate in the Department’s annual scientific retreat last January (2016) in Wittenberg."

—Philippe Gout

"Professor Foblets kindly accommodated my request to visit the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. I was particularly interested in the Law & Anthropology Department, as its members have produced leading research on legal pluralism, which fits with my PhD research on religious accommodation in European law. My time there was very useful and enjoyable. I carried out some comparative work on how the EU framework Directive 2000/78/EC was implemented in the UK and Germany. Comparing the case law from the UK and Germany proved to be quite an interesting challenge."

—Farrah Raza