Research Projects

Current Resarch Projects ordered by Research Area.

Research Area 1 | Research Area 2 | Research Area 3 | Research Area 4

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

4. The School of Salamanca

5. Political Normativity

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

11. Geltungsbedingungen partikular produzierter Normen mit universalistischem Anspruch unter den Bedingungen kultureller Heterogenität

12. Normativität und Freiheit

 

Projects in Research Area 2:
The Historicity of Normative Order

1. Biblische Rechtfertigungsnarrative in spätantiker Umwelt

2. Human Dignity in the Early Modern Period

3. Justification narratives in the Early Modern Period: Debates on political norms in the European estate assemblies during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

4. Die Wissenschaftskultur der Aufklärung und die Rechtfertigung normativer Ordnungen

5. Transformation of normative economic orders in the nineteenth century

6. Economic Counter-Discourses in Postcolonial Social and Political Movements: the Emergence of “Islamic Economy” in India

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

11. Mathematik und die Etablierung normativer Ordnungen in antiken Kulturen: Ägypten und Mesopotamien im Vergleich

12. Zur Funktion der Kanonisierung bei der Wissensüberlieferung in Mesopotamien

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

4. Negotiating Normativity: Feminist-Postcolonial Interventions (Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies - FRCPS)

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

7. Crisis and Normative Order - Varieties of Neoliberalism and their Transformation (Junior Research Group)

8. Normativität in einer nicht-idealen Welt

9. The Emergence and Transformation of Foreign Policy (in cooperation with research area 2 and 4)

 

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. Exterritorialisierung normativer Ordnungen

4. Strafen, Sanktionen und andere Durchsetzungsinstrumente normativer Ordnungen

5. Theory and Practice of International Law, 1789-1914

6. Gründe und Praxis des Strafens - ein deutsch-amerikanischer Vergleich

7. Internationales Immaterialgüterrecht – Grundstrukturen, weltweite Expansion und Krise einer normativen Ordnung

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)

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