Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Sciences Research Center

Summer Term 2015:

„Recht ohne Staat?“, Lecture, 26.05.2015 at Otto-Suhr-Institut of Freie Universität Berlin

 Winter Term 2013/14:

„Kommunal- und Baurecht“ Revision course at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (winter

Research Fields

• Public Law, esp. Adminstrative Law
• Sociology of Law
• Rule of Law and Governance

Projects

• Die Verwaltungsrechtswissenschaft in der frühen Bundesrepublik (1949-1977)“, Wissenschaftliches Netzwerk (DFG)
• Rule of Law Wiki
• Third congress of the german-speaking association for sociology of law „Die Versprechungen des Rechts“ (9. – 11. September 2015); [program]

Selected Publications

“Better Access to Justice by Public Recognition of Non-State Justice Systems?”, in: Peter Collin (Hrsg.), Justices Beyond the State, Frankfurt 2015 forthcoming, (preprint at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2015-02).

Non-State Justice Institutions and the Law: Decision-making at the Interface of Tradition, Religion and the State, London New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (ed., with Tilmann Röder, Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Rüdiger Wolfrum).

“Applying the Rule of Law to Contexts beyond the State”, in: James R. Silkenat, James E. Hickey Jr., Peter D. Barenboim (ed.), The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat), Springer: Cham Heidelberg u.a. 2014, 71-90 (with Gunnar Folke Schuppert)

“Good Governance”, in: Philipp Dann / Stefan Kadelbach / Markus Kaltenborn (ed.), Entwicklung und Recht. Eine systematische Einführung, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014, 553-587 (preprint at SFB-Governance Working Paper Series Nr. 58).

“Non-state justice institutions: A Matter of Fact and a Matter of Legislation”, Conference Paper, ISA Conference San Diego 2012 (SFB-Governance Working Paper Series No. 43).

More publications: Homepage WZB