07.04.2025

Justice as a subject of jurisprudence

Academic symposium in honor of Ute Sacksofsky. As a Frankfurt-based pioneer of feminist legal policy and theory, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard) has not only significantly influenced discussions on equality, but has also repeatedly focused on the question of how established law can be reconciled with social justice. Her tireless commitment to the fair legal treatment of disadvantaged groups was now given worthy recognition on April 4 and 5 as part of the honorary symposium “Justice as a Topic of Legal Studies – Continuity and Change in Intergenerational Consideration” on the occasion of her 65th birthday.

The program of the symposium outlined the developments and current status of Sacksofsky’s central research topics and invited the discussants to reflect on her contributions. In an intergenerational discussion, five exemplary topics were addressed, with three academics from different academic generations each taking up central texts by Sacksofsky in order to reflect on change, further development and questioning. The temporality of feminist interventions and the shaping of feminist traditions through personal and content-related disruptions were deliberately addressed.

The event was organized by Prof. Dr. Anna Katharina Mangold, LL.M. (Cambridge) (Europa-Universität Flensburg) and Prof. Dr. Berit Völzmann (Leibniz Universität Hannover) in cooperation with the Research Centre “Normative Orders” at Gothe University Frankfurt and other partners.

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What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

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05.05.2025

Normative Orders Newsletter 01/25 published

The newsletter from Research Centre Normative Orders collects information on current events, reports, news and publications several times a year. Read the first issue 2025 here.

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"Hitler. History of a Dictator" by Sybille Steinbacher will be published on May 15, 2025

The historian's new book deals with Hitler's origins, the roots of his anti-Semitism and his rise to power.

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Racism in the police has various dimensions. In the lecture series “Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies”, three empirical studies on police work will be presented.

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