Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and Chair of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Legal History, University of Regensburg
Social theory; the sociology of punishment and control; historical and comparative analysis of legal institutions; the history and sociology of welfare states; sociology of law; criminological theory
Sociolegal studies and contemporary political theory; specialising in state activism (particularly in British local government); gender and sexuality equality governance; everyday utopias and prefigurative institutions; and new conceptual methodologies
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