Former Fellows
Assist. Prof. Dr. Yousra Abourabi
Political Scientist (SciencesPo Rabat – International University of Rabat)
"The Normativities of Climate Change: Building New Legal Communities"
Assist Prof. Dr. Yousra Abourabi was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from May to July 2020.
Prof. Dr. Gianmaria Ajani
Legal scholar (University of Turin - I)
"From Property to Contract: A Proposal to Govern Some Challenges Brought to Private Law by Contemporary Visual Arts“
Prof. Dr. Ginamaria Ajani was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2019 to March 2020.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Sadik J. Al-Azm
Philosopher (University of Damascus, em.)
„The Civil Society Debate in the Arab World“
Sadik Al-Azm was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2011 to September 2012.
Prof. Dr. Martin Albrow
Sociologist (University of Wales, em.)
„Globalization, multiculturalism and principles of global governance“
Martin Albrow was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2012 to September 2013. From October 2013 until June 2017, Professor Albrow has been a Senior Fellow at the Center, since July 2017 he is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tiziana Andina
Philosopher (Università degli Studi di Torino)
“Embodied Meanings and Normativity. For a New Concept of Art”
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tiziana Andina was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from March to September 2015.
Prof. Dr. Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Legal scholar, Anthropologist (Temple University Philadelphia, USA)
"Disruptive Technologies, Digital Colonialism, and the Construction of Commercial Law in Africa"
Prof. Dr. Olufunmilayo B. Arewa was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from May to July 2019.
Prof. Dr. Louis Assier-Andrieu
Social anthropologist, legal scholar (École de Droit de Sciences Po, Paris)
„Genèse et critique du concept de culture juridique"
Louis Assier-Andrieu was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2011 to Oktober 2012.
Dr. Yavuz Aykan
“Islamic Jurisprudence as Language of Debate in the Early-modern Ottoman Context”
Dr. Yavuz Aykan was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from March to September 2013.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Beatriz Barreiro Carril
Legal scholar (Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid)
"My Culture? A Legal-Artistic Theatre Proposal for the Understanding of the Current Value and Possibilities of Cultural Rights"
Dr. Beatriz Barreiro Carril was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from June to August 2020.
Dr. José-Manuel Barreto
Legal philosopher
“Art, Emotions and the Human Rights Culture: Sentimental Education and the work of Bill Viola, Sebastião Salgado and Fernando Botero”
Dr. José-Manuel Barreto was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to September 2015.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pratiksha Baxi
Sociologist (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
„Picturing Constitutional Law: Law, Politics and Publicity in India“
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pratiksha Baxi was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to July 2017, from August to September 2012 and from May to July 2011.
Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Upendra Baxi
Legal scholar (University of Warwick, em.)
“The Aesthetics of the Human Rights“
Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Upendra Baxi was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to November 2011 and from July to December 2012.
Prof. Dr. Olivier Beaud
Legal Scholar (University Panthéon-Assas - Paris II)
"The case for a legal theory of citizenship"
Prof. Dr. Olivier Beuas was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from March to April 2020.
Dr. Marie Bels
Architect, historian of architecture
“The Contemporary Courthouse Architecture, between Normativity and Spectacularity”
Dr. Marie Bels was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January until September 2015.
Prof. Dr. Daniela Bifulco
Legal scholar (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli)
"Religion as a new source of law?"
From October 2015 to July 2016, Prof. Dr. Daniela Bifulco was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”.
Prof. Dr. Petar Bojanić
Philosopher (University of Belgrade and University of Rijeka)
On Institutional Agency (Deontic Powers of Institutions)
Anotated critical edition of W. Benjamin’s “Zur Kritik der Gewalt”
(Together with J. Butler and A. Deuber-Mankowsky)
Prof. Dr. Petar Bojanić was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from June until September 2014, from April to July 2016 as well as from August to November 2017 .
Assist. Prof. Dr. Sanja Milutinović Bojanić
Philosopher (Center for Advanced Studies for Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka)
Affectivity at the Crossroads of Law and Culture: Emancipation and Misogyny – Possibly Two Sides of the Same Coin
Affectivity and Marriage, 2nd Part: Affectivity at the crossroads of law and culture
Assist.-Prof. Dr. Milutinović Bojanić was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to July 2016, from August to November 2017 as well as from October to November 2019.
Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Bonnet
Art Historian (University of Bonn)
"Künstler, Künstler-Status und Künstler-Mythos im Netzwerk juristischer Kontingenz
oder die Legende von der ‚Autonomieʻ moderner Kunst"
Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Bonnet was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2018 to March 2019.
Prof. Dr. Sami Bostanji
Legal scholar and political scientist (Facolté de Droit et des sciences politiques de Tunis)
„The secularization of legal norms in the law of Arab countries“
Prof. Dr. Sami Bostanji was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from February to August 2012.
Dr. Patrícia Branco
Socio-legal scholar (Centro de Estudo Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra)
“Into, from and back again: a discussion on courthouse architecture, the image of justice and literature”
Dr. Patrícia Branco was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to June 2015.
Dr. A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh
Philosopher (ha’atelier – platform for philosophy and art, Berlin)
„Das TASWIR-Projekt - Rabbinische und Islamische Rechtstraditionen und die Ordnung der Dinge“
Dr. A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2010 to September 2011.
Prof. Dr. Pierre Brunet
Legal scholar (Universität Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne))
“Rights of nature as a new paradigm? Towards a comparative and interdisciplinary approach”
Prof. Dr. Pierre Brunet was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from May to September 2020.
Ass. Prof. Dr. Marta Bucholc
Sociologist, Legal scholar (University of Warsaw)
"Involvement and Detachment in Legal Concepts and Practices - On the potential of Norbert Elias's approach in the global comparative research of legal cultures"
Ass. Prof. Dr. Marta Bucholc was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2012 to September 2013.
Adj. Prof. Dr. Francesca Caroccia
Legal scholar (University of L'Aquila)
„The use of general clauses in the age of globalization. The role of judges and political choices“
Adj. Prof. Dr. Francesca Caroccia was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from July to December 2013 and again from May to September 2016.
Dr. Valentino Cattelan 
Legal scholar (Saudi-Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finance, IE Business School, Madrid)
"From the Island of Stone Money to the Archipelago of Islamic Finance. Reading Mangan’s Limits to Growth as an Exploration into Law, Economy and Cultures"
Dr. Valentino Cattelan was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2018.
Dr. Angela Condello
Legal philosopher (Università degli studi di Roma Tre)
“Exemplary Forms, Paradigmatic Forms: a Comparative Study of Types of Normativity between Law, Language and Culture”
Dr. Angela Condello was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to December 2014.
Prof. Dr. Helge Dedek
Legal scholar (McGill University, Montreal)
„Rights as Culture“
Prof. Dr. Helge Dedek was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from September 2011 to August 2012.
Prof. Dr. Nina Dethloff
Legal scholar (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
"Die Europäische Ehe - Optionales Recht für internationale Paare"
Prof. Dr. Nina Dethloff was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2012 to September 2013.
Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diouf 
Historian (Columbia University)
"Constitution-Making and Social Transformation in Africa. Cases from Senegal"
Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diouf was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from February to July 2017 and from June to July 2018.
Prof. Dr. Anna Donise
Philosopher (University of Naples Federico II)
“Heinrich Rickert and the Emergence of the Concept of Geltung (validity)”
Prof. Dr. Anna Donise was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from June to July 2014.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Dreier
Legal scholar (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), University of Freiburg)
“Regulating vision – Normative visual rules and visual images”
Prof. Dr. Thomas Dreier was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to September 2015. Since October 2015, Professor Dreier is Senior Fellow at the center.
Maria Eichhorn
Artist in Residence
"Rose Valland Institut"
Maria Eichhorn was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2018 to March 2019 and from October 2019 to March 2020.
Prof. Dr. Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
Social Anthropologist (Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota)
“Mothers on the Move: Birth and Belonging from Africa to the European Union”
Prof. Dr. Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from August 2013 to August 2014.
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Ferraris
Philosopher (University of Turin)
“Documentality and Intentionality”
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Ferraris was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from June 2013 to July 2014.
Prof. Dr. Sabine Frerichs
Sociologist (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
"Judging/Nudging Real Humans: Behavioural Law and Economics as a Cultural Project"
Prof. Dr Sabine Frerichs was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2018 to September 2019.
Dr. Anna Fuchs
Literary scholar
“Decadent Literature as Transgression which can break Criminal Law and rejects Human Rights”
Dr. Anna Fuchs was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from July to September 2015.
Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel
Philosopher (Chair for theory of cognition, modern and contemporary philosophy, Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn)
„Nicht-normative Voraussetzungen von Normativität“
Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April 2011 to March 2012.
Prof. Dr. Xujun Gao
Legal scholar (Tongji University Shanghai)
„The role of German influence on the transformation of the modern Chinese legal system“
Prof. Dr. jur. Xujun Gao was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from July to December 2012 and from August to September 2013.
Prof. Dr. José M. González García
Philosopher, Sociologist (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
„Ikonographie der Gerechtigkeit“
Prof. Dr. José M. González García was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from May to September 2011 and from June to December 2013.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Gosewinkel
Legal scholar, historian (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Freie Universität Berlin)
„Challenging Universalism. Critique of human rights as part of legal culture“
Prof. Dr. Gosewinkel was fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to July 2016 and from October 2016 to February 2017.
Prof. Dr. Débora Gozzo
Legal scholar (Universidade São Judas Tadeu / Centro Universitário Fieo, UNIFIEO)
“The Price of Human Dignity in a Globalized World. On the commercialization of humankind”
Prof. Dr. Débora Gozzo was fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to February 2016.
Prof. Dr. Amel Grami
Islam Studies scholar (University of Manouba)
“The Debate on Law, Religion, and Gender in Post-Revolution Tunisia: Emerging and Inherited Cultural Patterns”
Prof. Dr. Amel Grami was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from May to August 2014.
Dr. Morag Josephine Grant
Musicologist
“Music, Conflict and Human Rights”
Dr. Morag Josephine Grant was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November 2014 to September 2015.
Prof. Dr. Judith Hahn
Cath. Theologist, Canonist (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
“Kirchenrecht und Moderne. Kanonistische Geltungstheorie zwischen rechtskultureller Pluralität und theonomem Universalismus”
Prof. Dr. Judith Hahn was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2015 to March 2016.
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haltern
Legal scholar (Chair for Public Law, European Law and Philosophy of Law, University of Hannover)
„Law as Political Identity“
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haltern was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2010 to March 2011.
Dr. Rafael Harnos
Legal scholar (University of Bonn)
„Menschenrechtsschutz durch Unternehmenskommunikation“
Dr. Rafael Harnos was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2019.