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Welcome to the DFG Research Unit “Law – Gender – Collectivity”

Our interdisciplinary Research Unit has been active since January 2018. It brings together scholars of law, sociologists, European ethnologists and historians from the three major Berlin universities, the University of Potsdam and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Read more…

The Research Unit consists of six sub-projects and a coordinating project. In every sub-project, a team investigates a particular empirical research field. In our second funding phase (2021-2024), these are environmental law and climate litigation (A), transnational labor conflicts (B), urban & housing commons (C), consumer protection (D), processes of infrastructurization (E), and human rights, queer genders and sexualities since the 1970s (F).

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Workshop - Legal Research: Transdisciplinary - Intersectional - Empirical

Research Unit Event

Friday, 14.12.2018, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., University of Potsdam.

For a workshop, the research group Law - Gender - Collectivity at the University of Potsdam met with friendly researchers* and experts from the field. Based on initial questions and results, the workshop discussed how the respective subprojects operationalize legal concepts in an inter- and transdisciplinary discussion framework under the headings of (re)constructions, invocations, and mobilizations. The aim was to further develop the common understanding of the respective disciplinary approaches, and thus to perspective a resilient foundation for further legal research in the FOR.

Commentators: Sonja Buckel, Doris Schweitzer, Thomas Scheffer, Larissa Vetters.