Rechtskulturen Konfrontationen jenseits des Vergleichs / Legal Cultures Confrontations Beyond Comparison

The Postdoctoral Fellow Program Legal Cultures: Confrontations Beyond Comparison has been conceived as a central element of the Berlin research network Law in Context, funded by the City of Berlin since October 2009 and based at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.  The research network Law in Context aims to enhance, from a genuinely legal perspective, a re-contextualization of the law among its neighboring disciplines – the humanities and the cultural and social sciences. It will create a space of reflection and communication in which fundamental and salient questions of the law and its context(s) can be re-negotiated and re-connected with jurisprudence and legal methodology. Within the research network, the postdoctoral fellow program is crucial for the modification of research questions in transregional constellations