Current: HELPING, AIDING AND ABETTING: RESPONSIBILITY IN AN ENTANGLED WORLD
In my current research I explore the temporal and spatial dimensions of conflicting narratives of responsibility. I focus on two fields: Firstly, I examine legal notions such as aiding and abetting, complicity or non-assistance in different legal fields, particularly anti-terrorism legislation on the one hand, and corporate criminal law on the other, exploring the diverse narratives of mediate and immediate causality mobilised therein; I thereby want to elucidate transformations of institutional recognitions of ‘connection’ and the evidentiary narratives that support these. Secondly, I explore how civic acts of helping articulating moral notions of responsibility transform conceptualisations and institutions of a common weal. With these complementary approaches I explore the contestations of conceptualisations and delineations of our polities.
1. Current project
Current: Pathways from Injury: Naming, Proving, Interpreting. Sharib Aqleem Ali, Surya Ghildiyal, Pearl Pandya
2. Concluded Projects
Concluded: Doing Credibility; The Construction of Credibility in Swiss Asylum Procedures. Raphaël Rey, M.A., Laura Affolter, M.A., Johanna Fuchs, M.A.
Concluded: How Does Border "Occur"? The Deterritorialised European Border Regime and Migrants' Transnational Social Spaces. Simon Affolter, M.A., David Loher, M.A., Simone Marti, lic.rer.soz.
Concluded: Law in Protest: Transnational Struggles for Corporate Liability, Angela Lindt, M.A., Dr. Laura Affolter
Concluded: The emergence of global tax payers: the (re-)making of international business tax law. Dr. Johanna Mugler
3. Current Supervision of Junior Scholars:
Kiri Santer,
Lucien Schönenberg,
Surya Ghildiyal,
Sharib Ali,
Paule Pastré,
Lucie Benoit,
Pearl Pandya,
Eliane Gerber,
Louise Frey,
Jyothy Karat
Jevgeniy Bluwstein: Juridification of climate politics in the name of climate emergency: the case of climate activism and litigation in Switzerland.
Matthieu Bolay: Arbitraging Extraction (Arbitrex): Arbitral Reasoning in the Legal Topographies of Global Extraction,
4. Concluded Supervision of Junior Scholars:
Kiri Santer, M.A. Indirect Rule in the Central Mediterranean: the contested governance of the EU’s external maritime border" Kiri Santer, M.A.
Dr. David Loher: Creeping Death. Asbestos Victims and the Allocation of Moral and Legal Responsibility in the Aftermath of an Industrial Disaster.
Marco Motta: Crime, Intention, and Accountability: Informal and State Justice in Haiti.
Anna-Lena Wolf, M.A.: Just Tea? The Moral Economy of Assam Tea Production.
Dr. Olaf Zenker: Land restitution and the moral modernity of the new South African state.
Dr. Britta Ohm: The Meaning of Turkey. Narratives and Negotiations of the Islamic and the Secular on Turkish Commercial Television.
