Wed 23 Oct 2024

First Fellows‘ Exchange Meeting: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Law towards Change

We will officially start the 2024/2025 Fellowship cohort by warmly welcoming the new Fellows in Berlin from 23 to 25 October 2024 for their first Fellows’ Exchange Meeting. Under the banner of “Interdisciplinary Perspective on Law towards Change”, various interactive sessions will take place. The Fellows can engage with each other, the Advisory Board and the Alumni Network. Further external speakers will offer the possibility to discuss interdisciplinary approaches in legal research and practice concerning the constitution and future of democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Due to ongoing crises in and around Europe, engagement based on fact-based, interdisciplinary cooperation is needed to strengthen rule of law structures and democratic processes in the EU, the European neighbourhood and beyond. 

We are very pleased to meet the new Fellows and to embark on a Fellowship journey full of valuable insights, exchanges and collaborations in order to examine the status of rule of law and democracy in Europe and beyond.

 

 

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Day One

The event kicks off with an official welcome by the chair of the Advisory Board Angelika Nußberger and by offering Fellows the opportunity to get to know each other, further Advisory Board members and the re:constitution programme team. In the evening, the Fellows will attend the welcome reception of Forum Transregionale Studien for the Fellows of the new academic year 2024/2025 and the celebration of the Forum's 15th anniversary.

Day Two

On the second day, Democracy Reporting International, our program partner, will be joint by a surprise guest and offer an interactive session tailored for this occasion. Afterwards, Christian Boulanger will discuss interdisciplinary research methods with the Fellows who contribute a variety of backgrounds and thematic research focuses. In the afternoon, a panel discussion on The Legal Aspects of Heritage Preservation and Restitution with Stephan Dömpke (World Heritage Watch) and Anisha Patel (Law for Palestine), coorganised with  BEYONDREST, will take place.

Day Three

The final day will be started by Karina Theurer engaging with the Fellows on Eurocentrism as an obstacle to Reparations for Colonial Crimes? The doctrine of intertemporal law in the German-Namibian context. In the end, Democracy Reporting International will offer a space for reflection on the impact of one’s own research. It will also provide the Fellows with the opportunity to engage with the re:constitution Alumni network.

 

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