Julia Eckert new member of the Advisory Board

The Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Legal Unity and Pluralism“ has taken on Prof. Dr. Julia Eckert, social anthropologist at the University of Bern, as a new member as of 1 July 2023. The directors of the Kolleg, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ludwig and Prof. Dr. Peter Oestmann, are delighted that it was possible to recruit such a thematically relevant scholar for the work of the advisory board. "Due to her disciplinary perspective and her impressive work in the field of global legal pluralism, Julia Eckert is an ideal complement to our Academic Advisory Board," says Prof. Ludwig.

The Academic Advisory Board advises the Kolleg on questions related to the research programme and scientific quality assurance. It is also closely involved in the selection process of the fellows. A gap is thus closed with this appointment after the unexpected death of previous advisory board member Prof. em. Dr. Keebet von Benda-Beckmann in October 2022. Now the five-member board is once again complete and its personnel reflects the most important disciplines represented in the Kolleg.

About Julia Eckert

Julia Eckert has held the chair of Political Anthropology at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern since 2009. Previously, she examined the juridification of protest and the globalisation of transnational legal norms as head of the research group ‘Law against the State’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale. She specializes in the political anthropology of world society, focussing on changing institutions of democracy and law under conditions of increasing interdependence. Her current research focuses on the relation between moral and legal norms of responsibility and changing notions of liability and obligation. Further research topics that interest her include security and border regimes, citizenship, political participation, and struggles for social justice.