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.
