Conference on Law as Culture

De quelques formes primitives de classification or Under the Tree of Knowledge (Durkheim & Mauss), 1999/2013 © Werner Gephart All rights reserved. Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" invites to the final symposium on May 12 and 13 After twelve years of funding, the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" will host its final conference on May 12 and 13. Since 2010, the international research center has been reflecting on different systematic dimensions of law as a cultural fact. At the final conference, renowned scholars from various disciplines will speak on this topic and look back at the Center's developmental dynamics. In addition, artists who have joined the Center as Artists in Residence will talk about their experiences with the cross-pollination of research and art. The Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" intends to contribute to an understanding of law at a time when the world's normative orders have become subject to rapidly progressing globalization. Whereas the quid-juris-question is the focus of jurisprudence in general and legal dogmatics in particular, we want to utilize the conceptual and methodological means of the Humanities in order to render the law comprehensible as an important dimension of a globalizing world.