The workshop takes place fortnightly on Tuesdays, 6.15-7.45 pm, via Zoom.

Please note that unless otherwise indicated, the discussion of the texts will be in German. 

Spring 2021: Law and Emotions

02.03.21 : Stefan Häussler, Psychoanalytische Rechtstheorien und die Reflexion von Gefühlen in der Rechtsphilosophie

16.03.21: Julia Hänni, Juristisches Urteil – seine wahrnehmungstheoretischen Voraussetzungen

30.03.21: Sandra Schnädelbach, Vom inneren Trieb zum psychophysischen Paradox: ein emotionshistorischer Blick auf die Vermessung des Rechtsgefühls um 1900

13.04.21: Pierre Legendre, The Other Dimension of Law

27.04.21: Julia J. A. Shaw and Hilary J. Shaw, From Fact to Feeling: An Explication of the Mimetic Relationship Between Law and Emotion

11.05.21: Greta Olson, The Turn to Passion: Has Law and Literature Become Law and Affect?

25.05.21: Pavel Vasilyev, A Revolutionary Feeling of Justice? Emotion and Legal Judgement in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia (* please note the change to the original programme *)

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Autumn 2020: Law and Futurity

Spring 2020: Legal Fictions

Autumn 2019: The Nature of Legal Personhood

Spring 2019: Theories of Self-Determination

Autumn 2018: The Media of Law

Spring 2018: Constructing the Other

Autumn 2017: Law - Truth or Technology?

The law and theory workshop is a fortnightly gathering of students, PhDs, postdocs and staff, who meet to discuss select essays and book chapters on key legal and theoretical issues. Each semester is organised around a particular thematic focus, which is looked at from a range of critical perspectives.

The workshop provides a relaxed space for open discussion and exchange. As much as it is an intellectual exercise for members of the institute, it is also designed as an opportunity for students to gain exposure to advanced critical reading and thinking in law and theory.