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Rechtskulturen: Confrontations beyond Comparison
Rechtskulturen takes on the challenges of internationalization(s) – and responds to the necessity to understand law in its particular cultural context(s). At the core, the program aims to systematically confront ’our’ understanding of law, its functionalities and specific cultural techniques, with perceptions of law in various regions of the world. Our irritation by ‘the other’ shall not be tamed and circumvented by the premature assumption of a common tertium comparationis, and shall not be functionalized by a narrow, purely legal-pragmatic perspective.
Rechtskulturen integrates, as a network of interdisciplinary research on law, systematic and area-specific approaches. The program explores the foundations and contexts of law in a plural world where competitive and complementary multiplicities of legal and normative orders are part of social reality.
Rechtskulturen is a project of the Berlin Research Network Recht im Kontext (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) at the Forum Transregionale Studien. The program is funded by the Land of Berlin (Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung) and associated with the Faculty of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Department of Social Sciences (Urban Sociology) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.