Lisa Stuckey

Curating Weak Law: Think Tanks, Task Forces, and Tribunals in the Twenty-First Century

Dates of Stay: September 2022

Dr. Lisa Stuckey is a researcher in contemporary arts, media, and cultural studies. Her monograph Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten: Forensic Architecture und andere Fallanalysen (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022) is based on her doctoral thesis, for which she received the Austrian State Prize ‘Award of Excellence.’ The study addresses recent entanglements of arts and jurisdiction in tribunalized contexts in the wake of institutional critique and conflicting evidence procedures between forensics, media aesthetics, and poetic architectures of theories. Currently, Lisa Stuckey is a lecturer in cultural theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and has been a fellow at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich in 2022.

In her postdoctoral project Curating Weak Law, Lisa Stuckey studies think tanks, task forces, and tribunals of the twenty-first century through the perspective of curatorial theory. Functioning as compensatory infrastructures during or after moments of disruption, these intermediary actors may have the power to act, but often operate on levels of counseling, preparation, recommendation, serious play, or putting to test — on levels of ‘weak law’ one could argue. While commonly regarded as deficient, this research project pursues the thesis that precisely in weakness alternatives to normative hegemonies emerge.

Cristiano Moita

Certainties and Deep Disagreements in Law: Towards a Hinge Legal Epistemology

Dates of Stay: September - December 2022

Cristiano Moita is interested in the intersections between law and philosophy. His PhD is focused on the investigation of certainties and deep disagreements in legal normativity, and is an original epistemological proposal that addresses worldviews (as a set of fundamental certainties, the so-called “hinges”) and the collision of worldviews (as deep disagreements) in legal praxis. One objective of the research is an attempt to design a “hinge legal epistemology”, focused on how to understand the role played by fundamental certainties within legal normativity, especially in explaining polarization in constitutional reasoning.

Cristiano Moita is a Research Assistant in legal philosophy at the interdisciplinary Research Training Group “Normativity, Critique and Change”, a partnership between the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, Technical University of Berlin and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He holds a Master in Constitutional Law and a BA from the Federal University of Ceará. He is a lawyer and has experience as a lecturer in philosophy of law, hermeneutics, constitutional law and constitutional process.