Current Individual Projects
Director
Marie-Claire Foblets
I. CUREDI
II. Externally Funded Projects
Research Fellows
Katia Bianchini
I. Maritime Migration Flows and Challenges for Refugee Protection
II. CUREDI
Hatem Elliesie
I. Scharia in genuin europäischen Settings: Konnex muslimischer Lebenspraxis zu islamischer Normativität
II. Conflict Regulation in Germany's Plural Society
Alice Margaria
I. Invisible Richness: Culturally and Religiously Diverse Families before the European Court of Human Rights
II. CUREDI
Mariana Monteiro de Matos
CUREDI
Luisa Piart
Labour Governance in the Shipping Industry: An Anthropological Study of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
Sofia Pinedo-Padoch [since 01.10.2023]
Property; law; bureaucracy; death; material culture; reconstruction; United States, Ukraine
Hélène Quiniou [since 15.11.2023]
Reparations; War Trauma; Images and Affects; Intermediality; Europe and the Mediterranean
Farrah Raza
Minerva Research Group: The Ethics of Exchange: the Regulation of Organ Donation and Transplantation
Federica Sona
I. Childlessness, medically assisted procreation and Islām
II. European Muslim spouses tying and untying the knot
Larissa Vetters
I. Sentiments of Bureaucracies: Affective Dynamics in the Digital Transformation of German Immigration Management
II. Migration and the Transformation of German Administrative Law: An Ethnographic Study of State-Migrant Interactions in Administrative Courts
III. The Organization of Solidarity. Investigating External State Building in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina through the Disciplinary Lenses of Administrative Sciences and Sociocultural Anthropology (PhD)
PhD Candidates
Jana Araji
Towards an Internationalist Methodology of Recognition for Better Cross-border Continuity of Personal Status: Cases from France and England
Ahmet Said Aydil
Shaping Public Confidence: European Court of Human Rights Judgments and Their Reception in Türkiye
Lukas Bornschein
Judicial Communication: Fostering Trust in the Legal System
Angélica Cocomá
Agency, Power and Global Inequality – How Migrant Women from the Global South Navigate European Labour Migration Law in the Technology Sector
Marie Courtoy
Eroding coasts and the quest for climate and mobility justice: France, Guadeloupe and Senegal.
Mark Niklas Cuno
Subsidiary Protection for Armed Conflicts
Harika Dauth
Anti-Roma racism and the irregularization of belonging in the legal practice of citizenship regimes
Pierre Druart
The Intergenerational Memory of Mass Atrocities: The Missing Piece of Transitional Justice and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Katharina Ebner
Transnational Dimensions in Labour Migration Lawmaking
Inge Fiedler
Organ Donation after Death in Germany. An Ethnographic Exploration into the Multifaceted Process of Decision Making
Michelle Flynn
Faith in the Courts: A comparative analysis of case law regarding religious prescripts in marriage and divorce across Ireland, the UK, and the US (working title)
Friederike Gehrke
Judicial impartiality in plural societies – significance and influence of perceptions of normality in German civil law
Mustapha Hadji
The Silenced Memories of Political Violence in Morocco: The Politics of Memory and Intergenerational Remembrance (working title)
Isabel Jess
From Conversion to Controversy: A Socio-Legal Study of Iranian Converts from Islam to Christianity in the U.K. Asylum System
David Katz Rotnitzky
I. Reasonable Accommodation for Religious Minorities: Assessing Diversity in the Spanish Educational Framework
II. CUREDI
Nikko Kulke
I. Begründungsversuche einer interkulturellen Verbrechenslehre in der kulturell fragmentierten Gesellschaft
II. CUREDI
Igal Lavi
Religious Litigation in Private Law:
An Ethnographic Study of Sincerity and Religious Law in Israeli Courts
Frederike Silvana Nun
Legal Dimensions of Social and Cultural Pluralism in Romania – working title
Dillon Pillay
Assessing the influence of xenophobia on UK asylum claims based on religious grounds (working title)
Lisa Simonis
German residential tenancy law: A study of the incorporation of extralegal circumstances in legal practice and doctrine
Jodie Ellen White
A Human Rights Law Approach to Transplantation