Articles for tag: Assistententagung, Festschrift, Habilitation, Öffentliches Recht, Rechtskultur, Staatsrechtslehre
Naked Law, Lost Traditions. A Comment on Reut Paz and Legal Pluralism
Some days ago, Reut Yael Paz published a critical comment on the Cologne Court’s circumcision decision on this blog. Reut rigthly criticized the ignorant stance the Court took towards the challenges of legal pluralism and the conflict of diverging normative orders at the core of the concrete case – and she rightly criticized the widespread silence on these matters that shaped the debate so far. However, her own distinction between the Public and the Private remains unclear and therefore problematic. Does religion exclusively belong to the private sphere? The Cologne courts did not explicitely problematize that differentiation, and Reut Paz ... continue reading
Nacktes Recht, abgeschriebene Tradition. Anmerkungen zu Reut Paz und den Herausforderungen des Rechtspluralismus
Unlängst hat Reut Yael Paz hier kritisch Stellung genommen zum umstrittenen Beschneidungsurteil des Landgerichts Köln. Zutreffend weist sie darauf hin, dass das Gericht die Herausforderungen des Rechtspluralismus und des im konkreten Fall vorliegenden Konfliktes divergierender normativer Ordnungen verkannt hat – und dass auch die bisherige Debatte diese Fragen nur unzureichend zur Sprache bringt. Unklar und problematisch bleibt jedoch ihre eigene Unterscheidung zwischen Öffentlichem und Privatem. Gehört Religion nur in den Raum des Privaten? Abgesehen davon, dass das Gericht diese Differenzierung nicht explizit thematisiert, bleibt bei Reut Paz auch im Dunkeln, wie sich die Unterscheidung Öffentlich / Privat zu den konfligierenden ... continue reading
Strategic Decoration in the Persianate and Latinate Worlds c. 1500-1700
As the academic year draws slowly to a close, we are also approaching the concluding session of the 2012-2013 Rechtskulturen Colloquium. This inaugural year of Rechtskulturen has been an exciting and challenging beginning, with a great group of fellows. On Monday, 25 June, historian Gijs Kruijtzer (2011-2012 Rechtskulturen Fellow at Humboldt University Law School) will talk in
Caring for the soul: authority, ethics and knowledge practices in British sharia councils
In Recht im Kontext’s Rechtskulturen Colloquium this Monday, 18 June 2012, Rechtskulturen Fellow Julie Billaud will present her paper „Caring for the soul: authority, ethics and knowledge practices in British sharia councils“. In her abstract, she writes: „For the past 10 years, demands for recognition of European Muslims‹ legal needs have been interpreted as the failure of integration policies or as threats to democratic values, and more specifically to gender equality. This paper seeks to characterize the nature of these demands by studying the gender dynamics, personal motivations and values that guide them. Based on ethnographic research conducted in several ... continue reading
Modern Imperialism and the Secularisation of International Law
Recht im Kontext›s Rechtskulturen Colloquium about Modern Imperialism and the Secularisation of International Law. His paper deals with „the forgotten contingency of secularisation“: One reason why we fail to prevent and resolve both domestic and international conflict is that Western political and legal concepts are not only secular, but were designed to be blind to religion. The primary obstacle to preventing conflict is persistent, but rectifiable ignorance of history. From the fourth to the seventeenth century, Christian theology underpinned all aspects of thought, from the natural sciences to international law. As the Reformation eroded doctrinal monopoly, much of European thought ... continue reading
