Research Projects
Current Resarch Projects ordered by Research Area.
Projects in Research Area 1:
Conceptions of Normativity
1. Bioethical Challenges to Normative Order
2. The Changing Face of International Normativity
3. Equality and Gender Differentiation in Parent-Child-Relationships: the Praxis of Normative Orders
6. Religiöse Überzeugungen in normativen Ordnungen
7. Types of Norms and Kinds of Normativity
8. Quellen moralischer Normativität
9. Genese von Normen in der ökonomischen Wissenschaft
10. The Dictatorship of Justice
14. Rechtfertigungsnarrative: Das Beispiel des gegenwärtigen Kinos
Projects in Research Area 2:
The Historicity of Normative Order
1. Biblical Justification Narratives in the Late Antique World
2. Human Dignity in the Early Modern Period
4. Die Wissenschaftskultur der Aufklärung und die Rechtfertigung normativer Ordnungen
5. Transformation of Normative Economic Orders in the Nineteenth Century
7. Western Norms and Local Media in Africa
8. Contemporary Discourses on State and Society in the Islamic World (Junior Research Group)
9. Religious and Local Orders in Java
10. Feministische Diskurse in der islamischen Welt
12. The Function of Canonization in the Transmission of Knowledge in Mesopotamia
13. Transnationale Genealogien (Nachwuchsgruppe)
14. Knowledge and Information about Africa (Junior Research Group)
15. The visual memories of European Nations
16. The Emergence and Transformation of Foreign Policy (in cooperation with research areas 3 and 4)
Projects in Research Area 3:
Transnational Justice, Democracy and Peace
1. Transnational Justice and Democracy
2. Containing the Instruments of Force: Transformations of Arms Control
3. Secur(itiz)ing the West. The Transformation of Western Order
5. Preferences for Redistribution, State Intervention, and Democratic Rule in Sub-Saharan Africa
6. The Effect of Child Care Provision on Fertility and Female Labor Supply
8. Normativity in a Nonideal World
9. The Emergence and Transformation of Foreign Policy (in cooperation with research area 2 and 4)
10. Good Functional Governance as Narrative of Political Justification
11. Global Crime Governance: Towards a new Normative Order to Combat Transnational Nonstate Violence
12. The Quest for a 'New Deal': Opposition and the Global Poitical Order
13. Ambivalences of Universal Democracy
Projects in Research Area 4:
The Formation of Legal Norms between Nation
1. Regulated self-regulation from a legal historian's perspective
2. Societal Constitutionalism in the World Society
3. Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in
an Age of Globalization
4. Strafen, Sanktionen und andere Durchsetzungsinstrumente normativer Ordnungen
5. Theory and Practice of International Law, 1789-1914
6. The Normative Study of Law: Concepts of Justice in the Criminal System
8. Normative Conditions of Development Cooperation
9. The Change in Transnational Labour and Economic Law (Junior Research Group)
10. The Emergence and Transformation of Foreign Policy (in cooperation with research area 2 and 3)
11. Entstehung und Veränderung konstitutioneller Ordnungen im Vergleich
12. Normative Conditions of Emergence of the International Criminal Law
