When? Thursday, September 29, 2022, at 6 p.m.
Where? Youtube livestream
Speakers
Is justice blind to racism? Methods of legal research on racism.
Should the term "race" be removed from the Basic Law? This has been the subject of intense debate for several years, and the current federal government has set itself the task of doing so. However, the debate has shown how little research has been conducted into the structural category of "race" and the scope and anchoring of racism in German jurisprudence. At the same time, the topic of racism has also developed from a little-noticed niche topic in jurisprudence into a field of research in which more and more academics with different methodological approaches and sometimes diametrically opposed basic assumptions are becoming involved. It is therefore all the more important to reflect on what needs to be considered from a methodological and ethical perspective in legal research on racism.
Prof. Dr. Mathias Hong (Kehl University of Applied Sciences) will reflect on methodological issues in legal research on racism in his lecture. In his own research, he has not only dealt intensively with the dogmatics of the guarantee of human dignity, but also with the history of the development of the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of "race" in the Parliamentary Council (1948/1949).
Dr. Doris Liebscher, Head of the Ombudsman's Office of the State Office for Equal Treatment - Against Discrimination (LADS) and author of the book "Rasse im Recht - Recht gegen Rassismus", published by Suhrkamp in 2021, will comment on his lecture.
Moderation: Dr. Sué González Hauck (legal scholar and research associate at the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (DeZIM)).
To read in
- Series of articles by Mathias Hong on verfassungsblog.de: ""Race" in the Parliamentary Council and the dynamics of the idea of equality since 1776" - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
- Book by Doris Liebscher: "Rasse im Recht - Recht gegen Rassismus. Genealogy of an ambivalent legal category"