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Research Interests
Right to education, freedom of/from religion, human rights law, cultural and religious diversity, minority rights, law and anthropology
Research Area(s)
Spain, Europe
Profile
David Katz is a PhD candidate in the Law & Anthropology department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a European Master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights in Venice (Italy). As part of the latter programme, he spent a semester at the UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Rights, Democracy and Peace at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Since 2023, he has been registered as a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Science of Religions in the Department of International, Ecclesiastical and Philosophy of Law at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has contributed to teaching and training for the European Network of Councils of the Judiciary (EJTN) and the 'Management of Religious Diversity' course at the Complutense University of Madrid. His current research falls within the project ‘Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe’ (CUREDI).
Why Law and Anthropology?
I believe that law and anthropology is the perfect combination for providing a better understanding of the different spheres of law and policymaking. On the one hand, having a legal perspective gives one the knowledge and ability to analyse and comprehend legal theory. On the other hand, anthropology can provide a more nuanced understanding of the different legal domains and the applicability of law in the lived reality of individuals. Working at the intersection of the two disciplines, where legal structure encounters social occurrences, challenges the traditional perspective of legal theory, promotes a better contextualization of a society's social, economic, and political life, and allows one to fully understand the social and cultural interdependencies of humankind.