Fellowships at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster "Legal Unity and Pluralism"
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht“ (EViR, ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism‘) at the University of Münster invites applications for Short Term Fellowships (2 months) for the period from – preferably – 1 April 2025 to 31 May 2025. It may be possible to extend the fellowships by up to ten months, provided that the Kolleg’s application for a second period of funding is approved.
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg ”Legal Unity and Pluralism” examines phenomena of unresolved simultaneity of legal unity and pluralism from a genuinely historical perspective. Its main hypothesis is that legal pluralism should not be regarded as a sign of deficient law or a dysfunctional legal praxis (of earlier historical periods) but as a structural characteristic of law per se. The project opens up unusual perspectives on the understanding of law and society in general and the (legal) ways of dealing with forms of cultural diversity in particular. The goal of the Kolleg is to develop and to test a historically informed descriptive and analytical model in a cooperation between the fellows and the Münster scholars. In this manner, the Kolleg will assess the interrelations of legal unity and pluralism afresh and offer a new analytical approach to diverse phenomena of coexistence for discussion.
Scholars from the humanities and social sciences whose research clearly relates both to the general goals of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg and to an annual topic are invited to apply. We are particularly interested in research projects with a pronounced historical perspective. The annual topics of the Kolleg are: