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The objective of CRS - Centre for Studies in Legal Culture is to promote interdisciplinary cutting-edge research on the relationship between law and culture. Taking as its point of departure the double assumption that law is a cultural phenomenon and that its impact is, to a great extent, culturally and socially determined, the Centre seeks to develop and support research within a wide variety of subjects related to legal culture.

The German Association for Law and Society (formerly: Association for Sociology of Law) was founded in 1976 by a number of legal academics interested in introducing the social sciences into legal education, amongst them Thomas Raiser, Jutta Limbach, Winfried Hassemer and Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem. From the beginning, the Association has aimed beyond the circle of law professors; it is a forum for everybody who, from a legal or social scientific perspective, is studying the relationship between law and society.

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.

Si l'on souhaite maîtriser l'ensemble des activités qui se sont progressivement développées au sein du RED&S, il est urgent de considérer que le RED&S ne saurait se substituer à l'absence en France de structures de recherche tout comme de société savante dans cette aire de spécialité.