Finalized Projects
Collective Projects
Individual Projects
Beate Anam [01.04.2014–08.07.2022]
Daily practical life and Islamic normativity in the context of gender ǧihād
Sophie Andreetta
The judicialization of human dignity. Irregular migrants, welfare bureaucracies and the courts in French-speaking Belgium
Jonathan Bernaerts [15.01.2015–30.11.2019]
Language Rights, Policies and Practices in Linguistically Diverse Societies: are current legal orders addressing the needs and concerns of persons belonging to language minorities as well as those of the administration?
Petra Burai [01.02.2015–31.01.2016]
Law and society, legal anthropology of policy-making, anti-corruption policies, public participation and community engagement, human rights; Europe (particularly Central and Eastern Europe), USA
Jeanise Dalli [15.10.2018-14.10.2019]
The Legal and Medical Regulation of Female Genital Practices in Malta and the UK. Exploring the Interplay between ‘Harm’ and ‘Culture’
Jessika Eichler
Indigenous Peoples‘ Rights in a New Key: Local Perspectives on Global Norms in Bolivia’s Extractive Sectors
Kadir Eryilmaz [01.10.2018–31.03.2023]
Perceptions of Justice and Identity among the Suryoyo (Assyrian/Aramean) Community
Marie-Claire Foblets
The Moroccan Family Code - An Analysis of the Application of the Provisions of the Code that Relate in Particular to
Transnational Family Situations and/or Moroccan Nationals Residing Abroad
Kutaiba Kaidouha [01.11.2018–28.02.2023]
Family Conflicts within Syrian Families in Germany
Ian Kalman [01.02.2014–31.03.2015]
Research Interests: indigenous peoples of North America, indigenous rights, anthropology of law, border studies, Haudenosaunee/Iroquois studies, security and surveillance, bureaucracy, law enforcement, frame analysis; Akwesasne Mohawk Territory; Canada; the United States
Sirin Knecht
Advocating human rights under conditions of religious legal pluralism: the example of NGOs in Beirut, Lebanon
Kalindi Kokal [07.01.2014–06.07.2017]
Renditions of balance: (Unspoken) Dialogues with state law in dispute processing in rural India –
Legal pluralism, legal ethnography, law and society studies, dispute processing, cultural translations of law; South Asia (particularly India)
Laura Lambert [01.11.2017–31.01.2023]
(Re)Doing Asylum in Externalization Policies: The Case of Niger
Luc Leboeuf
Vulnerabilities Under the Global Protection Regime
Margarita Lipatova
Bordering Europe: Resistance and Governance in Greek Refugee Camps
Afrooz Maghzi Najafabadi
I. Justice at the crossroads of plural normativity: Religious and customary-based non-state justice in Light of the European Convention on Human Rights [01.01.2019–31.07.2022]
II. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Restorative Justice, sexual crimes, violence against women and children, family law, human rights law, legal pluralism, Islamic law, political crimes, criminal law and civil society; Middle East, Europe [01.08.2022–31.03.2023]
Alice Margaria
Invisible Richness: Culturally and Religiously Diverse Families before the European Court of Human Rights
Annette Mehlhorn [01.02.2023–31.01.2025]
With, against and beyond the Law: Radical Politics, Legal Activism and New Constitutionalism in Plurinational Bolivia –
Radical politics, social movements, legal pluralism, constitutionalism, rights of nature, extractivism, universities and knowledge production, labor; Latin America, Europe
Stefan Millar
State Transformations in the Context of Migration
Mariana Monteiro de Matos
Religious and cultural diversity before European courts: Procedural aspects regarding the access to justice by members of vulnerable groups in Portugal
Agathe Mora [01.02.2014–06.06.2015]
Anthropology of law, anthropology in/of institutions, anthropology of bureaucracy, post-conflict property restitution, peace and reconciliation, access to justice, transitional justice; Kosovo and Serbia, India
Kiran Morjaria [07.01.2014–28.02.2015]
Sophie Nakueira
Vulnerabilities Under the Global Protection Regime
Faris Nasrallah [01.10.2018–30.09.2021]
Beyond Theory and Practice in International Arbitration
Waseem Naser [01.10.2018–30.09.2022]
Negotiating Liminal Categories at the Margins of a Muslim Nation: The Case of 'Indian Muslims' in Malaysia
Maria Nikolova [01.10.2018–31.01.2023]
The Secret Life of Criminal Law: Child Marriage Prosecution in Europe
Varsha Patel [01.11.2013–31.10.2016]
Ioan-Mihai Popa [20.02.2009–23.06.2016]
Anthropology of the state; religion and politics; anthropology of law; welfare and family policy; transnationalism; inequality; Romania
Sajjad Safaei [01.06.2013–31.07.2019]
What’s wrong with beheadings?
Punishment and Violence, Middle Eastern Studies, International Relations, Civilisation and Barbarism, Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Democritization and Political Reform, Human Rights and Social Justice; Middle East & North Africa; Iran; Cauasus; Europe; United States
Abdelghafar Salim [01.10.2018–26.06.2023]
Lebensweltliche Alltagspragmatik von Muslimen und islamische Normativität im Kontext aktueller Migrantenmilieu
Luisa Schneider
Living intimacy without privacy: the unhoused between law, society and state
Katrin Seidel
South Sudan’s Constitutional Genesis in the Context of Legal Pluralism
Timm Sureau
I. An Ethnography of Programming: Migration management and the digitalization of legal-bureaucratic processes in Germany
II. Technicisation of Migration in the context of South Sudanese in Sudan
Bertram Turner
I. Arganosphere: Ethnographies of Socio-techno-legal Assemblages in the Moroccan Souss
II. Human Security, Conflict, and Ordering
III. Property Relations, Relational Property, Mobility, and Migration
IV. Normative and Religious Pluralism in Moroccan Islam
Markus Vollert [07.01.2014–31.12.2021]
“God Cannot Live Here”: Legal Conflicts Concerning the Twelve Tribes in Germany
Religion and law, religious minorities and minority rights, religious freedom, religious plurality, state-church relations, religious non-conformism, new religious movements, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Twelve Tribes; Europe (esp. Germany)
Zeynep Yanasmayan-Wegele
The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion