About the conference

Structure and Nature of the Event

Similar to the previous conferences in Lucerne (2008), in Vienna (2011), and in Berlin (2015), the conference in Basel will establish an open process. This way the conference aims to represent the whole spectrum of the research on law and to encourage the networking of researchers across various disciplines.

This series of conferences was initiated by the „Netzwerk Recht & Gesellschaft“ (Network Law & Society). Around 200 to 300 researchers from law, political science, sociology and a wide range of other disciplines based in all of the three countries attended the previous conferences.
Participants have the opportunity to discuss the main theme in individual or several working groups (Sessions) in the thematic tracks, but individual papers can be submitted in the area of interdisciplinary legal research (General Papers), too.
A programme committee, which consists of representatives of the organising institutions, coordinates the thematic tracks. After completion of a peer review process the track leaders will select the best individual submissions. Umbrella plenaries of the multiple tracks will focus on the conference theme as well. The conference language is German, but presentations in English and French are welcome.

Organising Institutions

Berliner Arbeitskreis Rechtswirklichkeit (BAR)
Institut für Interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung / Law and Society Institute Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (LSI)
Institut für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie, Wien (IRKS)
Forschungskomitee Rechtssoziologie und Rechtswirklichkeitsforschung der Schweizer Gesellschaft für Soziologie (FKR)
Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Kriminologie (GiwK)
Sektion Rechtssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
Sektion Recht & Gesellschaft der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ÖGS)
Vereinigung für Recht und Gesellschaft (VRG)
Faculty of Law at the University of Basel

Programmme Committee

The programme committee is responsible for the contents of the conference. It develops the conference theme and selects the tracks as well as the papers in the track „General Papers“.

Members of the programme committee are:

Boulanger, Christian, Dr. (BAR / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Cottier, Michelle, Prof. Dr. (FKR / Universität Genf)
Estermann, Josef, Prof. Dr. (FKR / Universität Zürich)
Fateh-Moghadam, Bijan, Prof. Dr. (Universität Basel)
Fuchs, Gesine, PD Dr. (Hochschule Luzern)
Fuchs, Walter, Dr. (IRKS / ÖGS)
Kastner, Fatima, PD Dr. (DGS / Universität Bielefeld)
Machura, Stefan, Prof. Dr. (DGS / Universität Bangor)
Pärli, Kurt, Prof. Dr. (Universität Basel)
Rosenstock, Julika, Dr. (BAR / TU Berlin)
Singelnstein, Tobias, Prof. Dr. (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Voithofer, Caroline, Dr. (Universität Innsbruck)
Wrase, Michael, Prof. Dr. (VRG / WZB / Universität Hildesheim)