Justice as a topic of jurisprudence – continuity and change from an intergenerational perspective
Scientific symposium in honor of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard)
The symposium is dedicated to the still underexposed questions of the connection between statutory law and justice, as they arise in particular in cases of discriminatory exclusion of categorically defined groups of people, such as the disadvantage of women.
With this topic, the symposium also serves to honor the life’s work of Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ute Sacksofsky, whose endeavor has always been and still is to focus on the question of justice in such cases. She is to be honored as one of the founders of feminist jurisprudence, a Frankfurt pioneer of feminist legal policy and theory who has significantly influenced and advanced the discussions on equality.
The aim of the symposium is to explore the development and current status of Ute Sacksofsky’s work based on central research topics and to think about Ute Sacksofsky’s contributions further. The temporality of feminist interventions and the shaping of feminist traditions through personal and content-related disruptions and discontinuities will be proactively considered and an intergenerational approach will be deliberately enabled: using five thematic areas as examples, three people from different academic generations will discuss change, further development and questioning based on Ute Sacksofsky’s central texts.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Anna Katharina Mangold, LL.M. (Cambridge)
a.mangold@uni-flensburg.de
Prof. Dr. Berit Völzmann
berit.voelzmann@jura.uni-hannover.de
