Fellows
Fellows of the Käte Hamburger Center "Law as Culture" from October 2010 to March 2022
Assist. Prof. Dr. Yousra Abourabi
Political scientist (SciencesPo Rabat – International University of Rabat)
"Corona Crisis - Normativity And Dynamics"
"The Normativities of Climate Change: Building New Legal Communities"
Following her fellowship from May to July 2020, Assist. Prof. Dr. Yousra Abourabi was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center "Law as Culture" in Bonn from December 2021 to March 2022.
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. Christoph Antons
Legal scholar (Law School of Macquarie University, Sydney)
"Peranakan Chinese in Indonesia: The Construction of a Community in Colonial Law and its Legacy"
Prof. Dr. Christoph Antons was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2020 to March 2021.
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 Beaud was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from March to April 2020.
Dr. Carolin Behrmann
Art historian (Institute of Art History in Florence, Max Planck Institute)
„Towards a Visual Common Sense“
Dr. Carolin Behrmann was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2020 to March 2021.
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.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Niall Bond
Political scientiest, Germanist, Historian, Anglicist
„Community and its Norms"
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Niall Bond was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from March to August 2021.
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.
Dr. Valérie Hayaert
Historian, literary scholar (Institut des Hautes Études sur la Justice (Paris))
"Lady Justice and her avatars: an archetype of honest weighing"
"The Roots of Economic Ethics in the Early Modern Period: Gift-exchange practices, shared judicial values and symbolic inventions"
Dr. Valérie Hayaert was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April 2018 to March 2019.
Justus Heck, M.A.
Sociologist (University of Bielefeld)
"Judicial Contact Systems"
Justus Heck was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from mid-May to December 2020.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Herdegen 
Legal scholar (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
"Die Verfassungsablösung (Art. 146 GG in vergleichender Perspektive des Grundgesetzes)"
"Das Völkerrecht in einer globalisierten Welt - Pluralismus in einer internationalen Wertordnung"
"The International Law of Biotechnology: Personhood and Human Rights, Risk Management and International Trade"
Prof. Dr. Matthias Herdegen was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2012 to April 2013, from October 2013 to March 2014 as well as from October 2017 to March 2018.
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hogrebe
Philosopher (Chair for Theoretical Philosophy, Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hogrebe was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2010 to March 2011.
Dr. Valerio Nitrato Izzo
Legal philosopher, legal theorist (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
“Three (Italian) Views of the City: Looking for the Legal Culture of the Urban in Calvino, Pasolini and Rosi”
Dr. Valerio Nitrato Izzo was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” in June 2015.
Ph.D. Mathew John
Legal scholar (Jindal Global Law School, Delhi)
"Social Intuitions in the Shadow of Liberal Constitutionalism: Modernity, Politics and State Formation in Contemporary India"
Ph.D. Mathew John was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to September 2017.
Prof. Dr. Olivier Jouanjan
Legal scholar (Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Universitiy of Freiburg)
"Histoire des doctrines du droit constitutionnel"
Prof. Dr. Olivier Jouanjan was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from May to September 2017 and from February to July 2018.
Prof. Dr. Otto Kallscheuer
Political scientist (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
“Shadows in the Subject. The Intersection of Light and Guilt in Caravaggio’s Paintings”
Prof. Dr. Kallscheuer was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to March 2015.
Dr. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Philosopher
“Arab Thought and Arab Revolts: Intellectual Critique and Political Protestation. Arab Intellectuals as Legislators in these Transformative Times.”
Dr. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2013 to September 2014.
PD. Dr. Fatima Kastner
Socio-legal scholar (University of Bielefeld)
"The Sociology of Constitutions:
Societal Constitutionalism in Globalization"
PD Dr. Fatima Kastner was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to December 2017.
Prof. Dr. Marie Seong-Hak Kim
Legal scholar, historian (St. Clouds State University Minnesota, USA)
"Law and Lineage Property in Korea“
Prof. Dr. Marie Seong-Hak Kim was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to August 2019.
Prof. Dr. Inge Kroppenberg
Legal scholar (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
“The Art of Procedure. Logic and aesthetics of the development of law in modernity”
Prof. Dr. Inge Kroppenberg was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to September 2015.
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Künkler
Political scientiest (SCAS, Uppsala)
"The Legal System of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Comparative Perspective"
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Künklerwas Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from July 2017 to June 2018.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Lehmann
Legal Scholar (University of Bonn)
"Culture, Law, and the Economy: Explaining Diversity in Business Regulations and Perspectives for their Coexistence"
Prof. Dr. Matthias Lehmann was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2018 to March 2019 as well as from October 2019 to March 2020.
Dr. Helga Maria Lell
Legal scholar, social and cultural scientist (National University of La Pampa, Santa Rosa Argentinien)
"The Legal Concept of Person in Argentina's Legal System: Economic Consequences of the Interpreation of Rights“
Dr. Helga Maria Lell was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" from April to June 2019.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff
Legal scholar (University of Bielefeld)
"Zusammenhänge von Recht, Moral und Verhaltenstraditionen am Beispiel der Korruptionsbekämpfung in Europa"
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" from October 2017 to march 2018.
Prof. Dr. Jamal Malik
Islamic scholar (Universität Erfurt)
"Fiqh al-da`wa oder die Verrechtlichung islamischer Mission"
Prof. Dr. Jamal Malik was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2012 to September 2013.
Dr. Jan-Christoph Marschelke
Cultural and collective scientist (University of Regensburg)
„Doing collectivity, doing normativity: Eine praxeologische Verbindung von Kollektivität und Normativität“
From April to September 2021 Dr. Jan-Christoph Marschelke was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”.
Privatdozentin Dr. Franziska Martinsen
Political Scientiest, Philosopher (University of Hannover)
"Call for Human Rights: Claims to Economic Autonomy in Global Human Rights Semantics"
Privatdozentin Dr. Franziska Martinsen was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from September 2019 to March 2020.
Prof. Dr. Johannes Masing
Foto Lorenz
Legal scholar (University of Freiburg)
„Rechtsgestaltung durch Höchstgerichte unter den Bedingungen der Internationalisierung"
From April 2021 to March 2022, Prof. Dr. Johannes Masing was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”.
Dr. Zoltán Megyeri-Pálffi
Legal scholar (University of Debrecen)
“The Relationship between Law and Architecture”
Dr. Zoltán Megyeri-Pálffi was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from August 2015 to March 2016.
Prof. Dr. Julia Mehlich
Philosopher (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
“Philosophical-literary Aspects of Legal Nihilism in Russia. From F. Dostoyevsky and L. Tolstoy to V. Pelevin and A. Ivanov”
"Die Begegnung von Rechtsnihilismus, Kommunitarismus und liberalem Recht. Kultur und Geltungstheorie in Russland"
Prof. Dr. Mehlich was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to July 2016 and from January to March 2018.
Dr. Sabine N. Meyer
Americanist (Universität Osnabrück)
“The Indian Removal in Native American Literature and the Law”
Dr. Sabine Meyer was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April 2015 to March 2016.
Prof. Dr. Martin Morlok
Legal scholar (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
"Das Zusammenspiel von Rechtsnormen und Normen der politischen Kultur bei der Regulierung des politischen Prozesses"
Prof. Dr. Martin Morlok was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2016 to March 2017.
Dr. Caroline Okumdi Muoghalu
Sociologist (Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile-Ife, Nigeria))
"Women as Inheritable Property: Issues in Gender and Economic Development
among the Anambra Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria"
Dr. Caroline Okumdi Muoghalu was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November to December 2018.
Dr. Rafael Mrowczynski
Sociologist (University of Leipzig)
“Doing Law and Making a Living in Nascent Market Economies: Socio-economic Transformations, Changing Legal Systems and Professional Orientations of Lawyers in Poland and Russia”
Dr. Rafael Mrowczysnki was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to December 2018.
Dr. Shirin Naef
Anthropologist (University of Zurich)
"Economy, Law and Religion: A Study of Shia Philanthropy in Iran"
Dr. Shirin Naef was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2018 to June 2019.
Cheikh Ndiaye
Artist in Residence (New York/Paris/Dakar)
"L'arpentage: l'appropriation de l'espace et ses incidences atistiques das les villes africaines"
Cheikh Ndiaye was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November 2017 to August 2018.
Prof. Dr. Masahiro Noguchi
Sociologist, Political Scientist (University of Ritsumeikan)
"Translating of Human Rights in Asia"
“Reception of Weber and his Image of China in the Japanese Humanities”
Prof. Dr. Masahiro Noguchi was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April 2013 to March 2014 and again from September 2021 to March 2022.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asma Nouira
Political scientist, legal scholar (Université Tunis- El Manar)
“Religion et constitution: l'insoluble conflit de culture”
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asma Nouira was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from August until September 2014.
Prof. Dr. Greta Olson
Anglicist, Americanist (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
“Future(s) of Law and Literature”
Prof. Dr. Greta Olson was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April until September 2014 and again from April until September 2016.
Dr. Chioma Daisy Onyige / Ebeniro
Sociologist (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
“Globalisation, poverty, and the shadow economy of human trafficking in Nigeria”
Dr. Chioma Daisy Onyige was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2019 to March 2020.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mona Oraby
Scholar of Law and Religion (Amherst College, USA)
“How Will We Know Who We Are? Devotion to the Administrative State”
Assist Prof. Dr. Mona Oraby was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2020 to March 2021.
Dr. Stefano Osella 
Legal scholar (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale))
"The Legal Regime of Gender Categories: Autonomy, Family, Community, the Making of the Gendered Subject in Comparative Law"
From April to September 2021 Dr. Stefano Osella was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”.
Ph.D. Ergün Özgür
Political scientist (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium)
"Integration of minorities from Turkey and the Multicultural Policy Implementations in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands"
Dr. Ergün Özgür was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November 2016 to August 2017.
Dr. phil (pending) Emma Patchett
Legal scholar, Literary scholar (King's College, London)
"Autopoesis, diaspora legal cultures and the European spatial imaginary"
Dr. Emma Patchett was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October until Dezember 2016 and again from April until June 2017.
Privatdozent Dr. Dr. Grischka Petri
Art histiorian, legal scholar (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, University of Glasgow)
I: “Cultures of Art Copyright”
II: “Monoculture. Cultural Cartels and Alternative Communities” A Contribution on the Development of an Economically Critical Analysis of Law
Dr. Dr. Grischka Petri was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to March 2015 as well as from April to September 2020.
Alexander Polzin
Artist in Residence (Sculptor, Berlin)
„Guilt – David und Goliath nach Caravaggio“
Alexander Polzin was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2010 to September 2011.
Prof. Dr. Martin Przybilski
Literary Scholar, cultural scientist (University of Trier)
"Law and Polemics. Religious Demarcation and Cultural Contact Between Jews and Christians"
Prof. Dr. Martin Pzybilski was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2019 to March 2020.
Dr. Martin Ramstedt
Anthropologist of law and religion (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
“Indigeneity and Conflict in Bali: On the Cultural Translation of International Legal Norms”
Dr. Martin Ramstedt was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from March 2014 to February 2015.
Dr. Antonella Ratti
Political scientist (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS), Rome)
„Rethinking the relationship between religion and secular law. Religious identities in public spaces from a comparative perspective“
Dr. Antonella Ratti was Junior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2011 to September 2012.
Prof. Dr. Christa Rautenbach
Legal scholar (North-West-University, Potchefstroom (South Africa))
„Plurality of Marriage Laws: Exploring the Viability of a Single Marriage Codefor South Africa in a Comparative Context“
Prof. Dr. Christa Rautenbach was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from mid-September 2020 to mid-March 2021.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jeff A. Redding
Legal scholar (Saint Louis University)
“The Rule and the Role of Islamic Law: Constituting Secular Law and Governance in Contemporary India”
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jeff A. Redding was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to August 2014.
Prof. Dr. Hamadi Redissi
Legal scholar, political scientist (Faculty of Law, University of Tunis El-Manar)
Prof. Dr. Hamadi Redissi was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October to December 2010.
Ali Samadi Ahadi
Artist in Residence (Director and screenwriter, Cologne)
„Demokratische Bewegungen in der islamischen Welt“
Ali Samadi Ahadi was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2011 to November 2012.
Prof. Dr. Moussa Samb
Legal scholar (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
“The Resurgence of Mediation as Method of Alternative Dispute Resolution for Social Conflicts in Africa”
Prof. Dr. Moussa Samb was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2015 to March 2016.
Prof. Dr. Johannes Saurer, LL.M.
Legal scholar (Eberhard Karls University ofTübingen)
„Klimaschutzregulierung im Anthropozän – Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rolle von Gerichten bei der Transformation hin zur CO2-neutralen globalen Ökonomie“
Prof. Dr. Johannes Saurer was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2019.
Prof. Dr. Joachim J. Savelsberg
Sociologist (University of Minnesota)
“Global Human Rights Law and National Cultures: Representing, Remembering, and Controlling Mass Atrocities"
Prof. Dr. Joachim J. 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. Martin Schermaier
Legal scholar (Institute for Roman Law and Comparative Legal History, Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn)
„Schuld und Verschulden im Zivilrecht des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit“
Prof. Dr. Martin Schermaier was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2011 to March 2012.
Prof. Dr. Mareike Schmidt, LL.M. (Tsing-Hua, China)
Legal scholar (University of Hamburg)
“Cultural Diversity in Private Law”
From October 2021 to March 2022, Prof. Dr. Mareike Schmidt was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”.
Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Lux
Sociologist (University of Leipzig)
"Räume eigenen Rechts. Zur Pluralisierung von Rechtsordnungen in der Moderne"
Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Lux was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April 2016 to March 2017.
Dr. Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg
Sociologist (University of Potsdam)
„Polit-ökonomische Expertise in der Krise: Zum Verhältnis von Recht und Wirtschaft in europäischen Expertengruppen“
Dr. Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2019.
Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck
Americanist (University of Osnabrück)
"Francis Lieber and the Hermeneutics of Property"
Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2018 to March 2019.
Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider
Islam Studies scholar (Göttingen University)
„National Identity, Law and Gender in Contemporary Palestine“
Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from March to May 2014.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schönberger
Legal scholar (University of Cologne)
"Die Verfassung der Dinge"
From October 2021 to March 2022, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schönberger was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture".
Prof. Dr. Sophie Schönberger
Legal Scholar (University of Düsseldorf)
"Die Verfassung der Dinge"
From October 2021 to March 2022, Prof. Dr. Sophie Schönberger was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”.
Prof. Dr. Eva Schürmann
Philosopher (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
“The Law and its Mediation”
Prof. Dr. Eva Schürmann was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to September 2015.
Dr. phil. Doris Schweitzer
Legal scholar, Sociologist (Universität Konstanz)
„Juridische Soziologien im 19. Jahrhundert“
Dr. phil. Doris Schweitzer was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November 2010 to October 2011.
Prof. Dr. Yoram Shachar
Legal scholar (Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel)
„Law’s Presence: A Comparative Study of Court Scenes in Civil and Common Law Cultures“
Prof. Dr. Yoram Shachar was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2011.
Tim Shaw RA
Artist in Residence
“The Birth of Breakdown Clown”
Tim Shaw RA was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April 2015 to March 2016.
Dr. Mani Shekhar Singh
Sociologist
„Picturing dharma and nayaya in Maithil Art in times of globalization“
Dr. Mani Shekhar Singh was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November 2012 until July 2013. During his fellowship, he was appointed Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Centre for Law and Humanities at the Jindal Global Law School (O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India) and will assume the position from August 2013.
Prof. Dr. Lawrence M. Solan
Legal scholar, linguist scholar (Brooklyn Law School)
"Shadows and Satellites in Constitutional Interpretation"
Prof. Dr. Lawrence M. Solan was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October to December 2017.
Prof. Dr. Philipp Stoellger
Prot. theologian, Bildwissenschaftler (Chair for systematic theology and philosophy of religion, University of Rostock)
„Deutungsmacht und Deutungsmachtkonflikte zwischen Recht und Religion“
Prof. Dr. Philipp Stoellger was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from August 2011 to July 2012.
Stefan Stößel
(Painter and graphic artist, Leipzig)
“Hierarchy of Pictorial Genres. Political aspects in the
still-life genre”
Stefan Stößel was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from September 2014 to February 2015.
Hamid Sulaiman
Artist in Residence (Syrian artist)
"82, before Freedom Hospital"
From October 2016 to June 2017 Hamid Sulaiman was active as Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center "Law as Culture".
Privatdozent Dr. Jan Christoph Suntrup
Political scientist (University of Bonn)
"State of Exception - A New Paradigm of Government?"
Privatdozent Dr. Jan Christoph Suntrup was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from August 2017 to July 2018.
Prof. Dr. Laurent de Sutter
Rechtswissenschaftler (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
„The Poetics of Police“
Prof. Dr. Laurent de Sutter 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. Enrico Terrone
Philosopher (Università degli Studi di Torino)
“Filmmaking the Social World”
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Enrico Terrone was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2014 to January 2015.
Dr. Alexandre Vanautgaerden
Historian, Art Historian (Académie royale de Belgique)
"Law as Culture: a digital project"
Dr. Alexandre Vanautgaerden was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from September 2019 to August 2020.
Dr. Diana Villegas
Legal scholar (University Paris II Panthéon – Assas)
„Contra Legem Orders. A Study on Normative Culture of Transgression“
Dr. Diana Villegas was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from May to October 2021.
Giles Walker
Roboticist and Sculptor
“To make the Sculpture move – theorie and practice. The Inner Life of Law and Art”
Giles Walker was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November 2015 to March 2016.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller
Legal scholar (University of Bonn)
„‚Just and Fair Solutions‘? – Grundlagen einer Restitutionskultur für NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogene Kunstwerke“
From April to September 2021 Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marco Wan
Legal scholar, Literary scholar (University of Hong Kong)
„Constitutional Debates and Hong Kong Cinema"
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marco Wan was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from June to August 2017.
Prof. Dr. Erika de Wet
Legal scholar (University of Pretoria and Universität Bonn)
“Customary Public International Law and Human Rights: The tension between state practice and legal culture”
Prof. Dr. de Wet was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from January to July 2016.
Prof. Dr. Sam Whimster
Sociologist (Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University)
„Theodor Mommsen, Max Weber and Law“
Prof. Dr. Sam Whimster was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from October 2011 to January 2013.
Prof. Dr. Benno Zabel
Legal scholar (University of Bonn)
"Funktionale Autonomie"
Prof. Dr. Benno Zabel was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2017.
Prof. Dr. Rainer Zaczyk
Legal scholar (Chair for Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law, Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn)
„Selbstsein und Recht“
Prof. Dr. Rainer Zaczyk was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2011.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Zimmer
Legal scholar (University of Bonn)
„Zwischen ökonomischem Modelldenken und rechtskultureller Werteverfolgung: Regulatorische Ansätze zu einer Kontrolle von Algorithmen“
"Die digitale Rechtsgemeinschaft"
Prof. Dr. Daniel Zimmer was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from April to September 2019 and from October 2020 to March 2021.