Emmy-Noether-group at the Sfb 447, FU Berlin
The Young Researchers’ Group links criminal procedures and their situations, or theoretically, the "discursive formation" (Foucault) and its performative events. It does so to reveal the fact-creating performativity of procedures. Everything that is "the case" is regarded as deriving from the procedure’s discourse formation. The group compares, in this line, four different procedural regimes (located in the US, the UK, Germany and Italy). It does so in order to sharpen the awareness for the variety and relevancy of legal discourse formation. Starting point for the case studies are procedural speech situations such as plea bargaining sessions, client-lawyer-meetings, lawyer-file sessions, or court hearings, in which statements are formulated and performed. From here, a temporal discourse analysis (DA) is initiated: means, a DA that emphasises the becoming of legal objects and the career of statements and stories. Careers are traced by accounting for the quotes, repetition, and references as well as for the forgetting, fading and displacements of utterances. This way, our discourse analysis reveals the accumulation, selection and efficacy of statements. Within joint projects (on the role of files, the relation of oral and scriptural economies, on witness-statements and truth-finding engines) we develop frameworks that allow us to compare the discourses without performing one hegemonic "procedural regime". You find more on the project and its key concepts (materiality, trans-sequentiality, mobilisation, careers) under http://www.law-in-action.de.
Contact:
FU Berlin
Emmy-Noether Nachwuchsgruppe am Sfb 447
Altensteinstr. 2-4
14195 Berlin
0049 (0)30 838 57427
http://www.law-in-action.de
Team:
Dr Thomas Scheffer (Case Study England), scheffer@law-in-action.org 838 - 57431.
Dr Livia Holden (Italien), aivil11@yahoo.it 838 - 57424
Dr Alex Kozin (USA), Kozinal@yahoo.com 838 - 57426
Dr Kati Hannken-Illjes (Germany), Kati@hannken-Illjes.de 838 - 57428
Shawn Boyne (guest researcher), smboyne@students.wisc.edu
Administration:
Raik Menzel, Raik.Menzel@gmx.de 838-574 27
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