Reflexive Globalisation and the Law: Expanding and Deepening its Understanding

On the first anniversary of the Centre for Advanced Studies Reflexive Globalisation of the Law (RefLex) at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and continuing the debate initiated with a first symposium that set the scene, this collection of blog posts showcases the research projects of the Centre’s first cohort of fellows. Spanning across different fields and regions, the contributions share a common engagement with the Centre’s central idea and research agenda, that is the premise that the globalisation of law and legal discourse has entered a reflexive phase in which law and the production of knowledge about law are increasingly understood not as one-way exports from or within the Global North but as dynamic, multidirectional exchanges that confront colonial legacies, epistemic hierarchies, and enduring asymmetries of power. Co-edited by Philipp Dann, Florian Jeßberger and Johannes Socher, the symposium kicks off with a live stream of the Centre’s first annual lecture, followed by a series of posts that illustrate how the understanding of this premise has developed, further expanded, and been put to test over the first year of RefLex.